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Duckpin

Definition: Duckpin

Duckpin

Noun

1. A bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin.

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


Commercial Usage: Duckpin

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Duckpin

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

duckpin bowling

29

duckpin

7

duckpin bowling ball

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Duckpin

Derivations

Words beginning with "duckpin": duckpins. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Duckpin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dickwit, doxepin, Dufkin, Dusapin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Duckpin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-i-k-n-p-u"

-1 letter: unpick.

-2 letters: cupid, pudic.

-3 letters: dick, dink, duci, duck, dunk, kind, nick, pick, pink, puck, punk, unci.

-4 letters: cud, cup, din, dip, dui, dun, dup, ick, ink, kid, kin, kip, nip, pic, pin, piu, pud, pun.

-5 letters: id, in, nu, pi, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-i-k-n-p-u"
 

+1 letter: duckpins, unpicked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Duckpin


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

44 75 63 6B 70 69 6E

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)

01000100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01110000 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#112 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0075 0063 006B 0070 0069 006E

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

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

38876977827580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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