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Bell-bottom

Definition: Bell-bottom

Bell-bottom

Adjective

1. (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom; "bell-bottomed trousers".

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

 

Synonym: Bell-bottom

Synonym: bell-bottomed (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Bell-bottom

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bell-Bottom Trousers (1945)

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

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Usage Frequency: Bell-bottom

"Bell-bottom" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bell-bottom" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bell-bottom

Language Translations for "bell-bottom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

""底部. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ベルト伝動 (Belfast, bell mark, bellboy, belt drive, Berlin, velvet, verbena, vermouth). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ベルボト . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

종 "닥. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-bottombay

   

Russian 

  

клеш. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bell-bottom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-e-l-l-m-o-o-t-t"

-3 letters: boomlet.

-4 letters: blotto, bottle, bottom, mottle, tootle.

-5 letters: bloom, bombe, botel, lotte, lotto, molto, motel, motet, motte, motto, obole, totem.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bell-bottom


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

42 65 6C 6C 2D 62 6F 74 74 6F 6D

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

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

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#98 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C 002D 0062 006F 0074 0074 006F 006D

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

3671787815688186868179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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