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Flush It

Definition: Flush It

Flush It

Verb

1. Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?".

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

 

Synonyms: Flush It

Synonyms: bomb (v), fail (v), flunk (v). (additional references)
Antonym: pass (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Flush It

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Jinx knows not to use that toilet and even if he did, he'd never flush it. (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down (Action; writing credit: Will Forte; Adam Hamburger)

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

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Anagrams: Flush It

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-i-l-s-t-u"

-1 letter: filths.

-2 letters: filth, flits, flush, fusil, hilts, hilus, lifts, shift.

-3 letters: fils, fish, fist, fits, flit, flus, hilt, hist, hits, huts, lift, list, lits, litu, lush, lust, shul, shut, sift, silt, sith, slit, suit, this, thus, tils, tuis, tush.

-4 letters: fil, fit, flu, his, hit, hut, ifs, its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis, tui.

 Words containing the letters "f-h-i-l-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: blueshift, faithfuls.

 

+3 letters: blueshifts, bullfights, cuttlefish, insightful, multiflash, sprightful.

 

+4 letters: blueshifted, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, thimblefuls, thiosulfate, ultrafiches.

 

+5 letters: bullfighters, cuttlefishes, faithfulness, foresightful, insightfully, mirthfulness, rightfulness, sprightfully, thiosulfates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Flush It


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

46 6C 75 73 68      49 74

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

    

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

01000110 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101000 00100000 01001001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#108 &#117 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#73 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006C 0075 0073 0068      0049 0074

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

407887857424386

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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