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| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: I think it was just kind of a random word that drew giggles and therefore was used. Definition: The meaning to the social group is random at best mostly used as a cheer up phrase to make the others forget their problems and rather show their chagrin at such a word being used. Context: Its usage is when someone is depressed or does not seem very happy they say monkeyballs, and the person they say it to is either laughing at the thought of it or embarrassed that it was used(I think that relates to some sort of taboo in the language). Social Source: An Eclectic combination of people. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
monkeyballs | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-l-l-m-n-o-s-y" | |
-3 letters: abelmosk, allonyms, ankylose, baloneys, benomyls, smokable, solemnly. | |
-4 letters: alkynes, allonym, ambones, amylose, ballons, baloney, bellman, bemoans, benomyl, blankly, bleakly, bynames, embanks, losable, mesally, monkeys, nombles, sokeman, soybean. | |
-5 letters: alkyls, alkyne, alleys, alloys, ambles, amoles, ankles, anoles, ballon, ballsy, basely, baymen, beanos, belays, bemoan, blames, blanks, bleaks, blokes, boylas, byname, embank, embays, emboly, embosk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 4E 4B 45 59 42 41 4C 4C 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. -.- . -.--. -... .- .-.. .-.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001 01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O N K E Y B A L L S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 004E 004B 0045 0059 0042 0041 004C 004C 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4749484539593635464653 |
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