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SNAP DRAGON

Specialty Definition: SNAP DRAGON

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Slang in 1811

SNAP DRAGON. A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SNAP DRAGON

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snap dragon

75
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SNAP DRAGON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snapdragon.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-n-n-o-p-r-s"

-2 letters: grandpas, grandson, pandoras, paragons, podagras.

-3 letters: angoras, dognaps, dragons, goannas, grandpa, padnags, pagodas, pandora, parados, paragon, parangs, pardons, podagra, randans.

-4 letters: adorns, agoras, angora, aprons, argons, dognap, dongas, donnas, dragon, goanna, gonads, grands, groans, nonpar, orangs, organa, organs, padnag, pagans, pagoda, pagods, pandas, pangas, parang, pardon, pargos, parson, posada, prangs, prongs, radons, randan.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-n-n-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: snapdragons.

 

+3 letters: prostaglandin.

 

+4 letters: prostaglandins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SNAP DRAGON


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

53 4E 41 50      44 52 41 47 4F 4E

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

    

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

01010011 01001110 01000001 01010000 00100000 01000100 01010010 01000001 01000111 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#65 &#80 &#32 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 0041 0050      0044 0052 0041 0047 004F 004E

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

534835502385235414948

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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