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BUCK-RIDER

Specialty Definition: BUCK-RIDER

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Buck-rider (A). A dummy fare who enables a cabman to pass police-constables who prevent empty cabs loitering at places where cabs will be likely to be required, as at theatres, music-halls, and large hotels. A cabman who wants to get at such a place under hope of picking up a fare gives a "buck" a shilling to get into his cab that he may seem to have a fare, and so pass the police.
"Constables are stationed at certain points to spot the professional `buck-riders.' "- Nineteenth Century (March, 1893, p. 576). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BUCK-RIDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-k-r-r-u"

-1 letter: redbrick.

-2 letters: bricked, curdier, curried, derrick, duckier.

-3 letters: bicker, birder, birred, bucked, bucker, burdie, buried, burier, burked, burker, burred, cruder, curbed, curber, curred, currie, dicker, ducker, duckie, duiker, durrie, ricked, rubied, rubier, rubric, rucked.

-4 letters: bider, biked, biker, brick, bride, brier, burke, cebid, cider, cried, crier, crude, cubed, cuber, cured, curer, curie, dicer, diker.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BUCK-RIDER


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

42 55 43 4B 2D 52 49 44 45 52

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

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

01000010 01010101 01000011 01001011 00101101 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#82 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0043 004B 002D 0052 0049 0044 0045 0052

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

36553745155243383952

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