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Pick-me-up


Synonyms: Pick-me-up

Synonyms: bracer (n), pickup (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Pick-me-up

"Pick-me-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pick-me-up" is used about 19 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%1980,337

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

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Modern Translations: Pick-me-up

Language Translations for "pick-me-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

采摘我. (various references)

   

French

  

analeptique (a. et s.m). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

쑤시 나에게 위로. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jough laynt (toast, toast drink, tonic), greddagh (parched). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ick-me-uppay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pick-me-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: pickup, pumice.

-4 letters: cuke, emic, epic, kemp, kepi, mice, mick, mike, muck, peck, pice, pick, pike, pimp, pipe, puce, puck, puke, pump.

-5 letters: cep, cue, cum, cup, ecu, emu, ice, ick, imp, kep, kip, kue, pec, pep, pic, pie, pip, piu, pup, uke, ump.

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

+4 letters: pumpernickel.

 

+5 letters: pumpernickels.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pick-me-up


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

50 69 63 6B 2D 6D 65 2D 75 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010000 01101001 01100011 01101011 00101101 01101101 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#45 &#109 &#101 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0063 006B 002D 006D 0065 002D 0075 0070

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

50756977157971158782

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