DROP COVES

  

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DROP COVES

Specialty Definition: DROP COVES

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Slang in 1811

DROP COVES. Persons who practice the fraud of dropping a ring or other article, and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded, they pretend that the thing is very valuable to induce their gull to lend them money, or to purchase the article. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: DROP COVES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-r-s-v"

-1 letter: scrooped, vocoders.

-2 letters: codrove, coopers, scooped, scooper, spoored, vocoder.

-3 letters: coders, cooers, cooped, cooper, copers, corpse, corves, covers, credos, decors, dopers, droops, droves, overdo, pedros, pooves, porose, prosed, proved, proves, rodeos, roosed, roscoe, scoped, scored, scroop, spored.

-4 letters: ceros, coder, codes, coeds, cooed, cooer, coops, coped, coper, copes, copse, cords, cored, cores, corps, corse.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-r-s-v"
 

+2 letters: postdivorce.

 

+3 letters: codevelopers, overproduces.

 

+4 letters: overprocessed.

 

+5 letters: overcompressed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROP COVES


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

44 52 4F 50      43 4F 56 45 53

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

    

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050      0043 004F 0056 0045 0053

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

3852495023749563953

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