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SWOOPSTAKE

Definition: SWOOPSTAKE

SWOOPSTAKE

Adverb

1. Altogether; indiscriminately.

Noun

1. See Sweepstake.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SWOOPSTAKE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Note: Swoopstake \Swoop"stake`\, noun. See Sweepstake. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: SWOOPSTAKE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-o-p-s-s-t-w"
	-3 letters: petasos, sapotes, woopses.
	-4 letters: estops, kotows, paseos, pastes, pestos, pookas, posset, ptoses, sapote, skates, spates, speaks, spokes, spooks, stakes, stapes, steaks, stokes, stooks, stoops, stopes, stowps, sweats, swoops, tawses, tweaks, wastes.
	-5 letters: apses, askew, askos, asset, awoke, easts, estop, kotos, kotow, oases, oasts, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peaks, peats, pesos, pesto.
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: SWOOPSTAKE

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

53 57 4F 4F 50 53 54 41 4B 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01010111 01001111 01001111 01010000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#87 &#79 &#79 &#80 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#75 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0057 004F 004F 0050 0053 0054 0041 004B 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53574949505354354539

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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