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SCOT-FREE

Definition: SCOT-FREE

SCOT-FREE

Adjective

1. Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCOT-FREE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)



Specialty Definitions: SCOT-FREE

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Scot-free Tax-free, without payment. (See below.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: SCOT-FREE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: SCOT-FREE

English words defined with "SCOT-FREE": Shot-free. (references)

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Modern Usage: SCOT-FREE

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: SCOT-FREE

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Books

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

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Modern Translations: SCOT-FREE

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

   

Romanian

  

scãpa teafãr (get off scot-free, get off with whole skin). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безнаказанный (scotfree, unpunished). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sağ salim kurtulmak (get off scot-free), yakayı sıyırmak (get off scot-free, pull through). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

miễn thuế (tax-free). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SCOT-FREE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inultum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: SCOT-FREE

Misspellings

"SCOT-FREE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scutifer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SCOT-FREE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCOT-FREE


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

53 43 4F 54 2D 46 52 45 45

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

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

01010011 01000011 01001111 01010100 00101101 01000110 01010010 01000101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#79 &#84 &#45 &#70 &#82 &#69 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 004F 0054 002D 0046 0052 0045 0045

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

533749541540523939

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INDEX

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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