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HACKUM

Crosswords: HACKUM

Specialty definitions using "HACKUM": Hackum. (references)

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Specialty Definition: HACKUM

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Literature

Hackum (Captain). A thick-headed bully of Alsatia, impudent but cowardly. He was once a sergeant in Flanders, but ran from his colours, and took refuge in Alsatia, where he was dubbed captain. (Shadwell: Squire of Alsatia.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

HACKUM. Captain Hackum; a bravo, a slasher. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Anagrams: HACKUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-k-m-u"

-1 letter: amuck.

-2 letters: cham, chum, hack, huck, mach, mack, much, muck.

-3 letters: amu, auk, cam, cum, ham, hum, mac.

-4 letters: ah, am, ha, hm, ka, ma, mu, uh, um.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-k-m-u"
 

+2 letters: humpback.

 

+3 letters: humpbacks, thumbtack, touchmark.

 

+4 letters: humpbacked, thumbtacks, touchmarks.

 

+5 letters: archdukedom, thumbtacked.

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Alternative Orthography: HACKUM


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

48 41 43 4B 55 4D

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0043 004B 0055 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

423537455547

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