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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Great Scott or ~~~Scot! Scot! A mitigated form of oath. The initial letter of the German Gott is changed into Sc. " `Great Scott! ... Beg pardon!' ejaculated Silas, astounded." - A. C. Gunter: Baron Montez, book iv. chap. xix. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Great Scott, I'm too late (The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure; writing credit: George Kashdan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's Maynard Great Scott (1955) Great Scott! (1920) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | When I told him I had four children he cried, Great Scott! four hostages to fortune. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | His master's voice. Polly: Great scott! It's my wife. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Inspecting the Democratic curiosity shop. Hancock (at sight of the Old Bourbon War Horse): "Great Scott! Am I to be the head of that?" / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann lithog., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| 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 |
great scott | 15 |
broadcasting great scott | 3 |
fitzgerald gatsby great scott | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cottagers. | |
-2 letters: attestor, coattest, cottager, cottages, escargot, garottes, testator. | |
-3 letters: cargoes, coaster, coaters, corsage, costate, cottage, cottars, cotters, garotes, garotte, orgeats, rotates, scatter, socager, storage, stretta, stretto, targets, tartest, tatters, toaster, totters. | |
-4 letters: actors, argots, attest, cagers, carets, cargos, cartes, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, corset, costae, costar, coster, cottae, cottar, cottas, cotter, crates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-t-t-t" | |
+4 letters: counterstating. | |
+5 letters: counterstrategy. | |
| 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)47 52 45 41 54 53 43 4F 54 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010100 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E A T   S C O T T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 0041 0054 0053 0043 004F 0054 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)415239355425337495454 |
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