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Icepick

Definition: Icepick

Icepick

Noun

1. Pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice.

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

"Icepick" is a common misspelling or typo for: Ice pick.

Synonym: Icepick

Synonym: ice pick (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Icepick

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Expression: Icepick

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "icepick": icepick-wielding.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Icepick

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

headache icepick

8

icepick

4

icepick lobotomy

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

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Modern Translations: Icepick

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

Arabic 

  

‏معول الثلج (ice axe). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jégcsákány (ice axe, ice pick). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icepickay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

пестик для колки льда. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

плішня для криги. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Icepick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-k-p"

-3 letters: epic, kepi, peck, pice, pick, pike, piki.

-4 letters: cep, ice, ick, kep, kip, pec, pic, pie.

-5 letters: pe, pi.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-k-p"
 

+2 letters: picnicked, picnicker.

 

+3 letters: picnickers.

 

+5 letters: placekicking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Icepick


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

49 63 65 70 69 63 6B

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)

01001001 01100011 01100101 01110000 01101001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#105 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0063 0065 0070 0069 0063 006B

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

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

43697182756977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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