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Belly-flop

Definition: Belly-flop

Belly-flop

Verb

1. Do a belly-flop; in diving.

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

 

Modern Usage: Belly-flop

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Screenplays

Thought I was a bad ass. I remember actually saying that I meant to belly-flop. (A Walk to Remember; writing credit: Karen Janszen)

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

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Modern Translations: Belly-flop

Language Translations for "belly-flop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

腹部拍击声. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

아랫배 툭 떨어뜨림. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elly-flopbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Belly-flop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-l-l-l-o-p-y"

-4 letters: belly, blype, felly, folly, lolly.

-5 letters: bell, bole, boll, fell, fley, floe, flop, lobe, loll, lope, obey, pelf, pleb, ploy, pole, poll, poly, yell, yelp.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Belly-flop


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

42 65 6C 6C 79 2D 66 6C 6F 70

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

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

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 00101101 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#121 &#45 &#102 &#108 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C 0079 002D 0066 006C 006F 0070

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

36717878911572788182

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INDEX

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


  

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