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Definition: Designated Driver |
Designated DriverNoun1. 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. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temperance | Teetotaler; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Designated Driver |
| Specialty definitions using "designated driver": FLAGGER, furniture-mover driver ♦ hook-up driver ♦ NEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVER ♦ route clerk, ROUTING CLERK ♦ straddle buggy operator, STRADDLE-TRUCK OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING ♦ traffic control signaler ♦ VAN DRIVER ♦ yard spotter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
designated driver | 26 |
designated driver program | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. | |
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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)
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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)D e s i g n a t e d   D r i v e r |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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