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Definition: Heels Over Head |
Heels Over HeadAdverb1. In disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Heels Over HeadSynonyms: head over heels (adv), in great confusion (adv), topsy-turvily (adv), topsy-turvy (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Haste | Hastily, precipitately; Adjective: helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu. |
Inversion | Adverb: inversely; Adjective: hirdy-girdy; heels over head, head over heels. |
Rashness | Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "heels over head": To go heels over head. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-h-h-l-o-r-s-v" | |
-4 letters: overheads, overlades. | |
-5 letters: ashlered, deleaves, haeredes, haverels, laveered, overhead, overheld, overlade, oversale, overseed, rehashed, reheeled, released, resealed, reshaved, resolved, revealed, shoveled, shoveler, slavered, sorehead. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 65 6C 73 4F 76 65 72 48 65 61 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100101 01101100 01110011 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e e l s   O v e r   H e a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0065 006C 0073 004F 0076 0065 0072 0048 0065 0061 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271717885249887184242716770 |
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