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Definitions: Bear Hug |
Bear HugNoun1. A wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent. 2. A takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | An unsolicited corporate takeover proposal, made privately or publicly to directors. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bear Hug (1964) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bear hug | 80 |
bear hug polar | 3 |
bear hug virus | 3 |
bear hug wrestling | 2 |
bear hug love | 2 |
bear hug picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bear hug"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | abrazo muy fuente. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba ve sert kucaklama, ayı gibi kucaklama. (various references) | |
Ukranian | ведмежа хватка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bearhug. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-h-r-u" | |
-2 letters: argue, auger, barge, brugh, burgh, gerah, huger, rehab, rugae. | |
-3 letters: ager, ague, bare, bear, beau, berg, brae, brag, buhr, bura, burg, garb, gaur, gear, grab, grub, grue, guar, habu, hare, hear, herb, huge, rage, rhea, rube, ruga, urea, urge. | |
-4 letters: age, arb, are, bag, bah, bar, beg, bra, bug, bur, ear, eau, era, erg, gab, gae, gar, hae, hag, her, hub, hue, hug, rag, rah, reb, reg, rub, rue, rug, ugh, urb. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, ag, ah, ar, ba, be, eh, er, ha, he, re, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-h-r-u" | |
+1 letter: bearhugs. | |
+2 letters: hamburger, sagebrush. | |
+3 letters: bushranger, hamburgers. | |
+4 letters: bushrangers, sagebrushes, staggerbush. | |
+5 letters: breakthrough, bunchgrasses, heartburning, turbocharged, turbocharger. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 72 48 75 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01001000 01110101 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a r   H u g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0072 0048 0075 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367167842428773 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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