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COKEBOTTLE

Specialty Definition: COKEBOTTLE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Cokebottle /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `escape-escape-cokebottle' commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, `cokebottle' faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command. It may be due for a second inning, however. The OSF/Motif window manager, `mwm(1)', has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings and behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or not) `control-meta-bang' (see bang). Since the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as `cokebottle'. See also quadruple bucky. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: COKEBOTTLE

Specialty definitions using "COKEBOTTLE": quadruple buckyspace-cadet keyboard. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COKEBOTTLE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cokebottle

4

billy cokebottle king

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: COKEBOTTLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-k-l-o-o-t-t"

-3 letters: booklet.

-4 letters: becket, betook, blotto, bolete, bootee, bottle, kettle, locket, obtect, ocelot, tootle.

-5 letters: betel, block, bloke, botel, celeb, cleek, cloot, coble, cooee, elect, ketol, lotte, lotto, obole, octet.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COKEBOTTLE


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

43 4F 4B 45 42 4F 54 54 4C 45

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)

-.-.    ---    -.-    .    -...    ---    -    -    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01001111 01001011 01000101 01000010 01001111 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#75 &#69 &#66 &#79 &#84 &#84 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004B 0045 0042 004F 0054 0054 004C 0045

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

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

37494539364954544639

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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