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Peepshow

Definitions: Peepshow

Peepshow

Noun

1. An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.

2. A short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth.

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

 

Synonym: Peepshow

Synonym: raree-show (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Peepshow

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

Movie/TV Titles

Peepshow (1956)

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

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Commercial Usage: Peepshow

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Peepshow

"Peepshow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peepshow" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Peepshow

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

Bulgarian 

  

сеир (raree show), зрелище (gapeseed, raree show, scene, show, spectacle), пипшоу. (various references)

   

Czech

  

podívaná (show, sight, spectacle). (various references)

   

French

  

visionneuse. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepshowpay

   

Portuguese

  

olho-mágico, gravuras, fotografias (Mount, photographs). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

gledanje pornografije. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dikiz şovu, delikten çıplak kadın izleme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Peepshow

Derivations

Words beginning with "peepshow": peepshows. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Peepshow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psephos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Peepshow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-o-p-p-s-w"

-2 letters: shoppe, wheeps.

-3 letters: hopes, howes, peeps, pepos, popes, sheep, sweep, weeps, wheep, whops, whose.

-4 letters: epos, ewes, hews, hoes, hope, hops, hose, howe, hows, opes, owes, owse, peep, pees, pehs, pepo, peps, peso, pews, phew, pope, pops, pose, posh, pows, seep, shew, shoe, shop, show, soph, spew, swop, weep, wees, whee, whop, woes.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-o-p-p-s-w"
 

+1 letter: peepshows.

 

+4 letters: horsewhipped, horsewhipper.

 

+5 letters: fellowshipped, horsewhippers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Peepshow


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

50 65 65 70 73 68 6F 77

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01100101 01110000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#101 &#112 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0065 0070 0073 0068 006F 0077

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

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

5071718285748189

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INDEX

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


  

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