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Definition: SCOT-FREE |
SCOT-FREEAdjective1. Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. |
Date "SCOT-FREE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Scot-free Tax-free, without payment. (See below.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquittal | Reprieve, respite; pardon; (forgive); let off, let off scot-free. |
Escape | Verb: escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm; (safe); escape scot-free. |
Exemption | Adjective: exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; Verb: unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable. |
Freedom | Adjective: free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SCOT-FREE |
| English words defined with "SCOT-FREE": Shot-free. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, and bring that evidence with ya; otherwise, I got no case and you'll go scot-free. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scot-free (1995) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Language | Translations for "SCOT-FREE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ατιμώρητος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sértetlenül (with a whole skin), sértetlen (intact, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, sound, unbroken, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unscathed, whole), biztonságban (out of harms way), büntetlenül (with impunity), büntetlen (unavenged, unpunished), épen (safely, scot free, soundly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slane seyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ot-freescay scãpa teafãr (get off scot-free, get off with whole skin). (various references) безнаказанный (scotfree, unpunished). (various references) sağ salim kurtulmak (get off scot-free), yakayı sıyırmak (get off scot-free, pull through). (various references) miễn thuế (tax-free). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inultum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SCOT-FREE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scutifer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: refects. | |
-2 letters: certes, corset, coster, crofts, erects, escort, fester, fetors, forces, forest, fortes, foster, freest, fresco, rectos, refect, resect, scoter, secret, sector, softer, stereo, terces. | |
-3 letters: ceres, ceros, cetes, cores, corse, coset, cotes, crest, croft, erect, erose, escot, ester, feces, feres, fetes, fetor, force, fores, forte, forts, frees, frets, froes, frost, ofter, recto, reefs, reest, reset, roset, rotes, score, scree, steer, stere, store, terce, terse, torcs, tores, torse, trees. | |
-4 letters: cees, cere, cero, cete, coft, core, corf, cors, cost, cote, cots, efts, eros, erst, fees, feet, fere, fete, fets, foes, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, orcs, ores, orts, recs, reef, rees, refs, reft, rest, rete, rets, rocs, roes, rose, rote, rots, scot, sect, seer, sere, serf, soft, sore, sort, tees, toes, torc, tore, tors, tree, tref. | |
-5 letters: cee, cor, cos, cot, efs, eft, ere, ers, fee, fer, fet, foe, for, fro, oes, oft, orc, ore, ors, ort, ose, rec, ree, ref, res, ret, roc, roe, rot, sec, see, ser, set, sot, tee, toe, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: defectors, effectors, perfectos. | |
+2 letters: cofeatures, deflectors, ferocities, florescent, forcemeats, forecasted, forecaster, forecastle, refections, reflectors. | |
+3 letters: benefactors, centerfolds, conferments, fictioneers, fluorescent, forecasters, forecastles, perfections, refectories, reflections, vociferates. | |
+4 letters: confederates, counterfeits, counterfires, craftspeople, deforcements, efflorescent, electroforms, enforcements, fluorescents, forecastable, frontispiece, refractories, reinfections. | |
+5 letters: calefactories, confectioners, cotransferred, counterforces, counteroffers, frontispieces, imperfections, motherfuckers, olfactometers, perfectionism, perfectionist, reflectorizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 4F 54 2D 46 52 45 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01001111 01010100 00101101 01000110 01010010 01000101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C O T - F R E E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 004F 0054 002D 0046 0052 0045 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533749541540523939 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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