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Bellbottoms

Definition: Bellbottoms

Bellbottoms

Noun

1. Trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s.

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

 

Synonym: Bellbottoms

Synonym: bellbottom trousers (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Bellbottoms

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Movie/TV Titles

Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes: The 70's (2001)

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

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Anagrams: Bellbottoms

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: boomlets.

-4 letters: boomlet, bottles, bottoms, mottles, mottoes, tootles.

-5 letters: blooms, blotto, bombes, botels, bottle, bottom, lottes, lottos, molest, motels, motets, mottes, mottle, mottos, oboles, obtest, osmole, tootle, totems.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bellbottoms


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

42 65 6C 6C 62 6F 74 74 6F 6D 73

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)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#98 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#111 &#109 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C 0062 006F 0074 0074 006F 006D 0073

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

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

3671787868818686817985

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INDEX

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


  

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