Backroom Boy

  

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Backroom Boy

Definition: Backroom Boy

Backroom Boy

Noun

1. An expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Backroom Boy

Synonym: brain truster (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Backroom Boy

Language Translations for "backroom boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

szürke eminenciás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackroombay oybay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Backroom Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-k-m-o-o-o-r-y"

-3 letters: backroom.

-4 letters: rockaby.

-5 letters: bamboo, broomy, carboy, corymb, crabby, crambo, croaky.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Backroom Boy


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

42 61 63 6B 72 6F 6F 6D      42 6F 79

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

    

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

01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#114 &#111 &#111 &#109 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0063 006B 0072 006F 006F 006D      0042 006F 0079

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

36676977848181792368191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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