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Ca-ca

Definition: Ca-ca

Ca-ca

Verb

1. Have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds".

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


Synonyms: Ca-ca

Synonyms: crap (v), defecate (v), make (v), shit (v), take a crap (v), take a shit (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Ca-ca

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Gizmo ca-ca! (Gremlins 2: The New Batch; writing credit: Charles S. Haas)

Yeah, I'm gonna shock teh world by spreading ca-ca all over the place (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory; writing credit: Richard Hatem)

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

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Commercial Usage: Ca-ca

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: Ca-ca

"Ca-ca" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ca-ca" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: Ca-ca

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ca-ca": ca-ca-ca-ca.

Ending with "ca-ca": ca-ca-ca-ca.

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

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Anagrams: Ca-ca

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caca.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c"

-2 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c"
 

+1 letter: bacca, cacao, cacas, caeca.

 

+2 letters: acacia, alcaic, baccae, cacaos, caecal, calcar, calpac, cancan, cancha, carack, chacma, cicada, cicala, cloaca, macaco.

 

+3 letters: acacias, accidia, acclaim, accrual, accusal, acicula, acmatic, alcaics, archaic, atactic, baccara, baccate, calcars, calpack, calpacs, cancans, canchas, caracal, caracks, caracol, caracul, carcase, carcass, cardiac, carioca, caroach, carrack, cascade, cascara, catcall, catclaw, catface, chacmas, champac, cicadae, cicadas, cicalas, clachan, cloacae, cloacal, cloacas, curacao, curacoa, macacos, macchia, malacca, saccade, saccate, toccata, vacancy, vaccina.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ca-ca


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

43 61 2D 63 61

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

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

01000011 01100001 00101101 01100011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#45 &#99 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 002D 0063 0061

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

3767156967

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INDEX

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


  

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