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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Black Leg A swindler, especially in cards and races. Also, one who works for less than trade-union wages; a non-union workman. "Pledging the strikers not to return to work so long as a single Black-leg was retained in the service."- Nineteenth Century, February, 1891, p. 243. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "BLACK LEG": black leg of potatoes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black leg | 55 |
sexy black leg | 20 |
black leg woman | 5 |
black leg stocking | 4 |
black leg sexy stocking | 3 |
big black leg | 3 |
beautiful black leg | 3 |
black leg magazine | 3 |
black leg red spider | 2 |
big black leg woman | 2 |
black leg long | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blackleg. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-k-l-l" | |
-2 letters: begall. | |
-3 letters: bagel, belga, black, bleak, cable, cella, gable, glace, gleba, label, legal. | |
-4 letters: able, alec, back, bake, bale, balk, ball, beak, beck, bell, blae, cage, cake, calk, call, cell, clag, egal, gale, gall, geck, kale, lace, lack, lake, leak, leal. | |
-5 letters: ace, age, alb, ale, all, bag, bal, beg, bel, cab, cel, elk. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-g-k-l-l" | |
+1 letter: blacklegs. | |
+5 letters: backpedalling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 4C 45 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001100 01000101 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K   L E G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 004C 0045 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36463537452463941 |
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