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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Strap Oil A beating. A corruption of strap 'eil, i.e. German theil (a dole). The play is palpable. The "April fool" asks for a pennyworth of strap 'eil, that is dole of the strap, in French I'huile de cotret. (Latin, stroppus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRAP OIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | csúnyán elver vkit (to give sy a little stirrup oil, to give sy a little strap oil), csúnyán elnáspángol vkit (to give sy a little stirrup oil, to give sy a little strap oil), csúnyán elagyabugyál vkit (to give sy a little stirrup oil, to give sy a little strap oil). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apstray oilay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airpost, apostil, oralist, patrols, portals, rialtos, tailors, topsail. | |
-2 letters: aorist, aristo, parols, pastil, pastor, patios, patois, patrol, pilots, pistol, plaits, polars, portal, postal, prosit, rapist, ratios, rialto, ripost, sailor, satori, spiral, spital, spoilt, sporal, tailor, tapirs, tolars, trails, trials, triols, tripos. | |
-3 letters: airts, alist, altos, aport, arils, astir, atrip, iotas, lairs, lapis, laris. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pastorali, posttrial, saprolite, spoliator, troopials, troupials. | |
+2 letters: captoprils, epistolary, palliators, periosteal, pictorials, polarities, prolactins, proplastid, prostomial, saprolites, spoliators, stipulator. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, allotropies, antileprosy, applicators, blastoporic, duplicators, explicators, graptolites, leptospiral, lithographs, malapropist, multiparous, pastoralism, pastoralist, peristomial, personalist, personality, piscatorial, pollinators, postcranial, postmarital, postorbital, pratincoles, probabilist, profligates, proplastids, pyroclastic, replicators, rhinoplasty, spirochetal, sporulating, sporulation, sporulative, stipulators, stipulatory, subtropical, tetraploids, trampolines. | |
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