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Ace Of Spades

Definition: Ace Of Spades

Ace Of Spades

Noun

1. The ace of spades; sometimes taken as a portent of death.

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



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Slang in 1811

ACE OF SPADES. A widow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Crosswords: Ace Of Spades

English words defined with "ace of spades": Spadille. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ace Of Spades

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Movie/TV Titles

The Ace of Spades (1935)

Ace of Spades (1925)

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Image Slideshow: Ace Of Spades

Computer Images:
Ace Of Spades

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Expression: Ace Of Spades

Expression using "ace of spades": as black as the ace of spades. Additional references.

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Modern Translations: Ace Of Spades

Language Translations for "ace of spades"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

pataässä. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aceay ofay adesspay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

negro como el carbón (as black as coal, as black as pitch, as black as the ace of spades, coalblack, pitch-black). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maça ası. (various references)

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Anagrams: Ace Of Spades

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-f-o-p-s-s"

-2 letters: escapades, peasecods.

-3 letters: escapade, peascods, peasecod, seascape.

-4 letters: casease, caseose, defaces, deposes, escaped, escapes, facades, passade, passado, peascod, pesades, posadas, scapose, speedos.

-5 letters: ceased, ceases, cessed, copses, decafs, deface, depose, epodes, eposes, escape, facade, faeces, fasces, feased, feases, fessed, fossae, paseos, passed, passee, peaced, peaces, peases, pesade, posada, scaped, scapes, scoped, scopes, soaped, spaced, spaces, spades, speedo, speeds, spodes.

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Alternative Orthography: Ace Of Spades


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

41 63 65      4F 66      53 70 61 64 65 73

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

        

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

01000001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#83 &#112 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0065      004F 0066      0053 0070 0061 0064 0065 0073

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

356971249722538267707185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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