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DRIVE IT HOME

Specialty Definition: DRIVE IT HOME

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Verb Phrase. Source: Comes from "drive it home" in its use in another context, such as in baseball, or as a sexual reference. Definition: To pound a nail into wood all the way until it is flush with the wood. Doesn't have to be wood though. Context: When you have an item that you need secured by the use of nails, and you have the item properly placed. Social Source: Construction Workers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DRIVE IT HOME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-i-m-o-r-t-v"

-2 letters: overtimed.

-3 letters: mothered, overedit, overtime.

-4 letters: demerit, diether, dimeter, diorite, emeriti, emeroid, emotive, ethmoid, heirdom, homered, hovered, merited, mitered, mothier, motived, removed, retimed, revoted, riveted, theorem, theroid, thieved, thrived, timider, vomited, vomiter.

-5 letters: dehort, demote, derive, devoir, devote, dieter, dither, divert, dormie, dotier, editor, either, emerod, emoted, emoter, evited, heired, hemoid, hereto, heriot, hermit.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRIVE IT HOME


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

44 52 49 56 45      49 54      48 4F 4D 45

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

        

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

01000100 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01001001 01010100 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#73 &#84 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0049 0056 0045      0049 0054      0048 004F 004D 0045

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

385243563924354242494739

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