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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Green Bag What's in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the "Green Bag Inquiry" (q.v.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GREEN BAG. An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they have no deeds to carry, frequently fill them with an old pair of breeches, or any other trumpery, to give themselves the appearance of business. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GREEN BAG |
| Specialty definitions using "GREEN BAG": Green Bag Inquiry. (references) |
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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 |
little green bag | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: engager, rebegan. | |
-2 letters: bagger, banger, barege, bargee, beggar, engage, enrage, ganger, genera, graben, grange, nagger, raggee, reggae. | |
-3 letters: agene, agger, agree, anger, barge, began, eager, eagre, eggar, egger, gager, genre, grebe, green, ragee, ranee, range, regna. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, bane, bang, bare, barn, bean, bear, been, beer, bene, berg, brae, brag, bran, bree, bren. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-g-n-r" | |
+2 letters: garbagemen. | |
+3 letters: gingerbread. | |
+4 letters: beggarliness, beleaguering, gingerbreads, gingerbready. | |
+5 letters: gingerbreaded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 45 45 4E 42 41 47 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000010 01000001 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E E N   B A G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 0045 004E 0042 0041 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41523939482363541 |
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