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Definition: CROKER |
CROKERNoun1. A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
Date "CROKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | CROKER, Dick, ex-king of New York City. Born in Ireland of Irish parents. From childhood he practiced the art of politics, which resulted in his gaining the friendship of the New York police force. C. was elected. C. was very poor. Later retired to his native land with two Atlantic liners filled with salary. Ambition: An Irish president. Recreation: English Derbys. Address: Ireland. Clubs: 1,100,000 New York Democratic. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Slang in 1811 | CROKER. A groat, or four pence. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CROKER |
| Specialty definitions using "CROKER": Fraserian Group. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bald, round man in tux smoking a cigar in front of a painting of a chariot race labeled "Dick Croker" of Tammany Hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stuart M. Croker, Rufus Dawes, Charles G. Dawes, and Owen D. Young posed, standing in the State Department. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Tammany is great and Croker gets the profit" / Keppler. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Richard Croker, Dewey Land Parade. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Brigadier McPherson & officers of the 4th Division Captain Higham [i.e., Heigham], 17th Regiment; Captain Earle, Major of Brigade; Captain Croker, 17th Regiment; Captain Swire; Captain McPherson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Captain Croker, 17th Regiment. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CROKER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "CROKER" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CROKER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Croker | Last name | 1,000 | 17,398 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "CROKER": croker sack. 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 |
betty croker | 62 |
croker | 14 |
cape croker | 12 |
croker peter | 6 |
betty croker recipe | 5 |
charlie croker | 3 |
croker tire | 3 |
cape croker reserve | 3 |
cape croker pow wow | 3 |
croker oar | 2 |
cape croker ontario | 2 |
croker end fire | 2 |
croker theo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "CROKER" (pronounced 'Cro"ker'): Anker, broker, Cadilesker, hanker, Hunker, Junker, Oker, Saker, trekker, Tunker, Yonker, Younker. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corker, recork, rocker. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: corer, crore, ocker. | |
-2 letters: cero, coke, core, cork, kore, reck, rock. | |
-3 letters: cor, err, kor, oke, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-4 letters: er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: corkers, corkier, croaker, prerock, recorks, rockers, rockery, rockier. | |
+2 letters: coworker, croakers, croakier, crockery, crookery, reckoner, recorked, rocketer, rocketry, rockrose. | |
+3 letters: corkscrew, corncrake, coworkers, crookeder, overtrick, reckoners, recorking, retropack, rockeries, rocketeer, rocketers, rockroses, workforce. | |
+4 letters: cankerworm, caseworker, chokeberry, corkscrews, corncrakes, cornerback, cornhusker, crewelwork, crockeries, crookeries, crowkeeper, dockworker, dropkicker, overstruck, overtricks, retropacks, rocketeers, rocketries, rockhopper, wickerwork, workforces. | |
| 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)43 52 4F 4B 45 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. --- -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R O K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 004F 004B 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)375249453952 |
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