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GUINEA-DROPPER

Specialty Definition: GUINEA-DROPPER

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Literature

Guinea-dropper A cheat. The term is about equal to thimble-rig, and alludes to an ancient cheating dodge of dropping counterfeit guineas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: GUINEA-DROPPER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-u"

-3 letters: repapering, unprepared.

-4 letters: dognapper, grenadier, orangerie, paupering, perduring, preordain, preparing, properdin, puerperia, regrouped, repouring, rereading, unreadier, uprearing.

-5 letters: dapperer, deringer, dognaper, dragrope, dropping, dungaree, endpaper, erigeron, gardener, garnered, geepound, grandeur, grounder, gueridon, gunpaper, inpoured, oedipean, oppugned, oppugner, orangier, ordainer, ordering, organdie, panderer, papering, pardoner, parergon, parridge, paupered, peperoni, peponida, peregrin, perigean, ponderer, porridge.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GUINEA-DROPPER


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

47 55 49 4E 45 41 2D 44 52 4F 50 50 45 52

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

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

01000111 01010101 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000001 00101101 01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#65 &#45 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#80 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0049 004E 0045 0041 002D 0044 0052 004F 0050 0050 0045 0052

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

4155434839351538524950503952

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