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Designated Driver

Definition: Designated Driver

Designated Driver

Noun

1. The member of a party who is designated to refrain from alcohol and so is sober when it is time to drive home.

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


Synonyms within Context: Designated Driver

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Temperance

Teetotaler; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Designated Driver

Specialty definitions using "designated driver": FLAGGER, furniture-mover driverhook-up driverNEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVERroute clerk, ROUTING CLERKstraddle buggy operator, STRADDLE-TRUCK OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMINGtraffic control signalerVAN DRIVERyard spotter. (references)

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Modern Usage: Designated Driver

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Designated driver take the keys to my truck (This Is How We Do It; performing artist: Montell Jordan)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Designated Driver

AuthorQuotation

Jay Leno

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Designated Driver

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

  designated driver

26

  designated driver program

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

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Anagrams: Designated Driver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-e-g-i-i-n-r-r-s-t-v"

-4 letters: desiderating, desiderative, veratridines, veterinaries.

-5 letters: advertising, denigrative, desiderated, designative, disinterred, disregarded, drivetrains, garnierites, intergraded, intergrades, veratridine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Designated Driver


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

44 65 73 69 67 6E 61 74 65 64      44 72 69 76 65 72

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

    

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

01000100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000100 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#103 &#110 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#68 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0073 0069 0067 006E 0061 0074 0065 0064      0044 0072 0069 0076 0065 0072

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

387185757380678671702388475887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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