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Gumdrop

Definition: Gumdrop

Gumdrop

Noun

1. A jellied candy coated with sugar crystals.

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


Modern Usage: Gumdrop

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm the magical man from Happyland, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You don't need a machine to make a rainbow for rainbows are made of happy thoughts and dreams and chocolate unicorns and gumdrops and licorice sunsets and fuzzy gum drops bears and chocolate covered chocolate gumdrop land (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis)

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

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Commercial Usage: Gumdrop

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gumdrop and the Great Sausage: Story and Pictures (Biro, Val, Gumdrop Quickstart Readers.) (reference)

  • The Great Gumdrop Robbery (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Gumdrop

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Gumdrop Meets Spider". Credit: NASA.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gumdrop

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

gumdrop

53

flojos gumdrop

9

book gumdrop

4

cookie gumdrop

2

the gumdrop tree

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gumdrop

Language Translations for "gumdrop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

اب نبات (Barleysugar, Candy, Drop). (various references)

   

German

  

Gummibonbon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umdropgay

   

Turkish

  

sakızlı şeker. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gumdrop

Derivations

Words beginning with "gumdrop": gumdrops. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gumdrop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geldrop, Gendron, Gundrun, ufdrop. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Gumdrop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-m-o-p-r-u"

-2 letters: gourd, group, grump, proud.

-3 letters: dorm, dorp, doum, dour, drop, drug, drum, dump, duro, gorp, grum, pour, prod, prog, prom, romp, roup, rump, updo.

-4 letters: dog, dom, dor, dug, duo, dup, god, gor, gum, mod, mog, mop, mor, mud, mug, oud, our, pod, pom, pro, pud, pug, pur, rod, rom, rug, rum, udo.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-m-o-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: gumdrops.

 

+2 letters: promulged.

 

+3 letters: campground.

 

+4 letters: campgrounds, promulgated.

 

+5 letters: multipronged, unprogrammed.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Gumdrop


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

47 75 6D 64 72 6F 70

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)

01000111 01110101 01101101 01100100 01110010 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#117 &#109 &#100 &#114 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0075 006D 0064 0072 006F 0070

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

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

41877970848182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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