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LEG BAIL

Definition: LEG BAIL

LEG BAIL

1. Escape from custody by flight. [Slang]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: LEG BAIL

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Avoidance	Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translations: LEG BAIL

Language		Translations for "LEG BAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		удрать (bolt, cut one's lucky, get away, give leg bail, give leg-bail, make off, nip away, run off, scram, take to one's heels). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: LEG BAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-l-l"
	-1 letter: alible, begall, labile, liable.
	-2 letters: agile, bagel, belga, bilge, gable, gleba, glial, ileal, label, legal, libel.
	-3 letters: able, bail, bale, ball, bell, bile, bill, blae, egal, gale, gall, gibe, gill, glia, glib, ilea, leal.
	-4 letters: age, ail, alb, ale, all, bag, bal, beg, bel, big, ell, gab, gae, gal, gel, gib, gie, ill, lab.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-l-l"
	+1 letter: labeling.
	+2 letters: befalling, begalling, eightball, gimballed, globalise, globalize, labelling, litigable.
	+3 letters: barrelling, eightballs, eyeballing, globalised, globalises, globalized, globalizes, highballed, obligately, relabeling.
	+4 letters: bellyaching, fireballing, mislabeling, relabelling, umbrellaing.
	+5 letters: agglutinable, balneologies, biflagellate, billingsgate, curveballing, liberalising, liberalizing, mislabelling, paleobiology, speedballing.
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.

Alternative Orthography: LEG BAIL

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

4C 45 47 42 41 49 4C

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

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

01001100 01000101 01000111 00100000 01000010 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#71 &#32 &#66 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0047 0042 0041 0049 004C

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

463941236354346

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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