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| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Crosswords: LIT UP |
| English words defined with "LIT UP": board ♦ control board, control panel ♦ demonic, diabolic, diabolical ♦ fiendish ♦ hellish ♦ infernal, instrument panel ♦ light up ♦ panel ♦ satanic ♦ unholy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
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. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The candle lit up her face |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Leicester Abbey lit up. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lit up | 11 |
buckcherry lit up | 3 |
again lit up | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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