Cuckoo's Nest

  

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Cuckoo's Nest

Definition: Cuckoo's Nest

Cuckoo's Nest

Noun

1. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cuckoo's Nest

Synonyms: booby hatch (n), crazy house (n), funny farm (n), funny house (n), loony bin (n), madhouse (n), nut house (n), nuthouse (n), sanatorium (n), snake pit (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Cuckoo's Nest

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cuckoo's Nest

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Books

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference)

  • Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink's Guide to Keeping Polly from Going Crackers and You Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (reference)

  • Cliffsnotes One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference)

  • The Jack Nicholson Collection (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Pledge, The Witches of Eastwick) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cuckoo's Nest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-c-c-e-k-n-o-o-s-s-t-u"

-4 letters: coconuts, contuses, countess, stuccoes.

-5 letters: coconut, concuss, contuse, cuckoos, nostocs, sconces, sockets, soonest, stuccos, sunkets, tonuses, tussock, uncocks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cuckoo's Nest


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 75 63 6B 6F 6F 27 73      4E 65 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101111 01101111 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#111 &#111 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#78 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0075 0063 006B 006F 006F 0027 0073      004E 0065 0073 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378769778181985248718586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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