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Definition: How Come |
How ComeAdverb1. Question word; what is the reason; "why are you here?"; (`how come' is a nonstandard variant as in "how come he got an ice cream cone but I didn't?"). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: How ComeSynonym: why (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: How Come |
| English words defined with "how come": Arjuna ♦ situation, state of affairs ♦ To come about. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "how come": Exposure assessment ♦ fractal dimension ♦ Nay-word ♦ Queen's Day ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ safety, Seymour Cray. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes) Daddy, how come that coffin is so small? (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.) Well, how come you don't want to go? (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Yeah, how come, Karl? (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan) They want to know how come they never see you! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | If it's a crime, how come I feel no pain (Carrie; performing artist: Europe) You may wonder how come I love you (Pink Cadillac; performing artist: Natalie Cole) WELL, HOW COME YOU SAY YOU WILL WHEN YOU WON'T? (Honey Don't; performing artist: Ringo Starr) Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby? (BROWN SUGAR; performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Clever | If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same? (references; author: unknown) How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? (references; author: unknown) If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway? (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dark laughter. "The teacher says that everyone can git to be president. Then how come the whole class. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | How come, Hans, all the traffic is one way?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Doug Larson | How come financial advisers never seem to be as wealthy as they think they can make us. |
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| Language | Translations for "how come"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | wieso (why). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | owhay omecay почему (as to why, how is it that, wherefore, why). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-m-o-o-w" | |
-2 letters: chemo, mooch. | |
-3 letters: chew, chow, coho, come, echo, home, homo, howe, meow, whom. | |
-4 letters: coo, cow, cwm, hem, hew, hoe, how, mew, mho, moc, moo, mow, ohm, oho, ooh, owe, who, woe, woo. | |
-5 letters: eh, em, he, hm, ho, me, mo, oe, oh, om, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-m-o-o-w" | |
+4 letters: anchorwomen. | |
+5 letters: cochairwomen, commonwealth. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 77 43 6F 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o w   C o m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0077 0043 006F 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)428189237817971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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