Boy Scouts

  

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Boy Scouts

Definition: Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts

Noun

1. An international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys.

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


Crosswords: Boy Scouts

English words defined with "Boy Scouts": boy scout, Boy Scouts of Americamerit badgeroverscout group, scout troop, scoutertroop. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Boy Scouts": DISTRICT ADVISER, district director. (references)

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Modern Usage: Boy Scouts

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Youth clubs, Boy Scouts, that sort of thing. (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle)

You know how fast those boy scouts move? (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

Movie/TV Titles

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)

Scrappy's Boy Scouts (1936)

Boy Scouts Be Prepared (1917)

The Boy Scouts Return (1913)

Charley Smiler Joins the Boy Scouts (1911)

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

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Commercial Usage: Boy Scouts

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Books

  • Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts (Picture Story Biographies) (reference)

  • Dangerous snakes of Australia and New Guinea; a handbook for bushmen, bushwalkers, mission workers, servicemen, boy scouts, migrants, medical practitioners, and naturalists on the identification and venoms of Australian snakes, with directions for first-a (reference)

  • Boy Scouts in Mexico or on Guard With Uncle Sam (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Boy Scouts

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Photo Album: Boy Scouts

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A group of boy scouts and their leaders plant native wetland plants in Palmetto, Manatee County, Florida. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Boy Scouts building a bridge in the Ft. Stanton Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to complete requirements for the Eagle Scout level of achievement. Credit: Howard Parman.

Young Boy Scouts piling brush to clear a trail for improvments in Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: H. Parman.

Ida B. Wells housing project Some of the Boy Scouts of Troop 446 who meet in the community center / John Delano. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Boy scouts on donkeys breaking through jungle with machete. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Harding greeting Boy Scouts, who made bicycle trip from Columbus, Ohio, outside the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boy Scouts unpack and arrange donated clothing, from other states, received by the Red Cross in the drought-stricken areas of Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into. Credit: Library of Congress.

Belknap Springs, Oregon. Boy Scouts. Credit: Library of Congress.

United Nations Fight for Freedom : colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Spoken Usage: Boy Scouts

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

The Boy Scouts could crush Canada with zero casualties, yet we let them opt to keep welcoming in terrorists and to thumb their noses at us on Iraq.

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

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Expression: Boy Scouts

Expression using "Boy Scouts": boy Scouts of America. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Boy Scouts

Language Translations for "Boy Scouts"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

Bureau international du scoutisme (Boy Scouts International Bureau), BIS (Boy Scouts International Bureau). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ボーア磁子 (balk, bauxite, boatswain, Boeing, Bohr magneton, bow, bow collar, bowing, boy, boy friend, boy hunt, boy soprano, boyish, vocal, vocal solo, vocalist, vogue), 少年団 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ボーイスカウト , しょうね" ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oybay outsscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Boy Scouts

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-o-o-s-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: oocysts.

-3 letters: boosts, custos, oocyst, scoots, scouts.

-4 letters: boost, boots, booty, bossy, bousy, bouts, boyos, buoys, busts, busty, coots, costs, cusso, cysts, ousts, outby, scoot, scots, scout, scuts, soots, sooty, stobs, stubs, toyos.

-5 letters: boos, boot, boss, bots, bout, boyo, boys, buoy, buss, bust, busy, buts, buys, cobs, coos, coot, coss, cost, cosy, cots.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Boy Scouts


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

42 6F 79      53 63 6F 75 74 73

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

    

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

01000010 01101111 01111001 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#111 &#121 &#32 &#83 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#116 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006F 0079      0053 0063 006F 0075 0074 0073

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

3681912536981878685

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Spoken
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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