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LIT UP

Specialty Definition: LIT UP

DomainDefinition

Slang

Verb. Source: Phrase/term previously in existence that was adopted by the football team to mean something completely different. Definition: Term means to hit really hard. Context: Used when talking trash to an opponent or bragging about a hit a player made. Social Source: University of Oregon Football Team. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Crosswords: LIT UP

English words defined with "LIT UP": boardcontrol board, control paneldemonic, diabolic, diabolicalfiendishhellishinfernal, instrument panellight uppanelsatanicunholy. (references)

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Modern Usage: LIT UP

DomainUsage

Lyrics

My name's lit up on the prow (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

A star lit up like a cigar (Elevation; performing artist: U2)

Movie/TV Titles

All Lit Up (1920)

Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit Up the World (1983)

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

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Photo Album: LIT UP

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Though the brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky almost exactly 10 ... Credit: NASA.

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Sign at the Harper's tourist home, just over the district line in Maryland, lit up in the evening to attract motoring guests. Most guests are Washington workers who stay there until they find an apartment. It costs two dollars to tw. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: LIT UP

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The candle lit up her face

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Leicester Abbey lit up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LIT UP

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

lit up

11

buckcherry lit up

3

again lit up

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

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Modern Translation: LIT UP

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

German

  

erhellte. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ki van világítva (to be lit up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acceso (aglow, alight, bright, on). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

明明 (brightly lit), 明々 (brightly lit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あかあか (bright, bright red, brightly lit). (various references)

   

Manx

  

soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, luminous, lustrous, radiant, shiny, splendid, vivid), scooyrit (canned, drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, oiled, pickled, plastered, stoned). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itlay upay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), küfelik (blind drunk, dead drunk, lit, shellac, sottish, stewed, stinking, stinko, well oiled). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LIT UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tulip, uplit.

Words within the letters "i-l-p-t-u"

-1 letter: litu, puli.

-2 letters: lip, lit, pit, piu, pul, put, til, tip, tui, tup.

-3 letters: it, li, pi, ti, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: plutei, pulpit, tulips, uplift, uptilt.

 

+2 letters: culprit, nuptial, pitiful, plaudit, pulpits, slipout, stipule, unplait, unspilt, unsplit, upbuilt, uplifts, uplight, uptilts.

 

+3 letters: capitula, culprits, gulpiest, lilliput, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, multiply, nuptials, philtrum, platinum, plaudits, playsuit, plumiest, plutonic, populist, poultice, pugilist, pulpiest, pulpital, putridly, slipouts, spiteful, stipular, stipuled, stipules, stupidly, sulphite, troupial, tumpline, ultrahip, unplaits, unpliant, unpolite, unspoilt, uplifted, uplifter, uplights, uptilted.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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