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BEAU TRAP

Specialty Definition: BEAU TRAP

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Literature

Beau Trap A loose pavement under which water lodges, and which squirts up filth when trodden on, to the annoyance of the smartly dressed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

BEAU TRAP. A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the great damage of white stockings; also a sharper neatly dressed, lying in wait for raw country squires, or ignorant fops. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: BEAU TRAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-p-r-t-u"

-2 letters: abater, abrupt, arbute, aurate, bateau, upbear, upbeat, uprate, uptear.

-3 letters: abate, apart, apter, aurae, beaut, brute, buret, erupt, parae, pareu, pater, peart, prate, pruta, rabat, reata, rebut, taber, taper, taupe, tubae, tuber, urate.

-4 letters: abet, abut, aper, area, atap, aura, bare, bate, bear, beat, beau, beta, brae, brat, brut, bura, burp, bute, para.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-p-r-t-u"
 

+3 letters: perambulate.

 

+4 letters: perambulated, perambulates, perambulator, uncapturable, unrepeatable.

 

+5 letters: perambulating, perambulation, perambulators, perambulatory, superabundant.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEAU TRAP


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

42 45 41 55      54 52 41 50

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

    

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

01000010 01000101 01000001 01010101 00100000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#65 &#85 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0041 0055      0054 0052 0041 0050

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

36393555254523550

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