Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Heads-up

Definition: Heads-up

Heads-up

Adjective

1. Fully alert and watchful; "played heads-up ball".

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

Synonym: Heads-up

Synonym: wide-awake (adj). (additional references)

Top     

 

.

Crosswords: Heads-up

English words defined with "heads-up": wide-awake. (references)

Top     

Commercial Usage: Heads-up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time (reference)

  • Make the Team: Soccer: A Heads-Up Guide to Super Soccer! (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

Top     

Anagrams: Heads-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-p-s-u"

-1 letter: hasped, pashed, paused, phased, pushed, shaped.

-2 letters: ashed, deash, dupes, ephas, hades, heads, heaps, pause, phase, pseud, sadhe, sadhu, shade, shape, spade, spaed, spued.

-3 letters: aped, apes, apse, dahs, daps, dash, dues, dupe, dups, edhs, epha, hade, haed, haes, haps, hasp, head, heap, hued, hues, pads, pase, pash, peas, peds, pehs, puds, push, sade, shad, shea, shed, spae, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, upas, used.

-4 letters: ads, ape, ash, asp, dah, dap, due, duh, dup, eau, edh, eds, had, hae, hap, has, hep, hes, hue, hup, pad, pah, pas, pea, ped, peh, pes, pud, pus, sad, sae, sap, sau, sea, sha, she, spa, sue, sup, ups, use.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, as, de, ed, eh, es, ha, he, pa, pe, sh, uh, up, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-p-s-u"
 

+1 letter: dustheap, unshaped.

 

+2 letters: dauphines, deathcups, dustheaps, purchased, sulphated.

 

+3 letters: duennaship, euphausiid.

 

+4 letters: audiophiles, diadelphous, duennaships, euphausiids, repurchased, superharden, superheated.

 

+5 letters: monadelphous, philadelphus, prepurchased, stepdaughter, supercharged, superhardens, thunderclaps.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Heads-up


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

48 65 61 64 73 2D 75 70

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

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

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#115 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 002D 0075 0070

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

4271677085158782

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.