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Definition: BLUE PILL |
BLUE PILL1. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) | |
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 |
blue pill | 69 |
blue pill pill red | 15 |
blue pill purple yellow | 6 |
blue pill red | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-l-l-p-u" | |
-2 letters: pilule. | |
-3 letters: libel. | |
-4 letters: bell, bile, bill, blip, blue, bull, lieu, lipe, lube, lull, pile, pill, pleb, plie, pule, puli, pull. | |
-5 letters: bel, ell, ill, lei, leu, lib, lie, lip, pie, piu, pub, pul. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 55 45 50 49 4C 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L U E   P I L L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0055 0045 0050 0049 004C 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36465539250434646 |
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