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Definition: Poor Boy |
Poor BoyNoun1. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Poor BoySynonyms: bomber (n), grinder (n), hero (n), hero sandwich (n), hoagie (n), hoagy (n), sub (n), submarine (n), submarine sandwich (n), torpedo (n), wedge (n), zep (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Poor Boy |
| Specialty definitions using "poor boy": Codds ♦ Fuggers ♦ RHODES, ROCKEFELLER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy ("House of the Rising Sun"; performing artist: The Animals) Hang down your head and cry poor boy ah well uh ("Tom Dooley"; performing artist: The Kingston Trio) Poor boy, you're bound to----die ("Tom Dooley"; performing artist: The Kingston Trio) | |
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 |
willie and the poor boy | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "poor boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | poor boy, fiskeværktøj (cattail overshot, die coupling, female tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | goedkoop werktuig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | araignée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Spinne (rotary clothes line, spider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | "αράχνη". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oorpay oybay repescador improvisado. (various references) spindel (axis, axle, mandrel, mandril, pivot, spider, spindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Poor Boy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Poorboy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-o-o-p-r-y" | |
-3 letters: boor, boyo, broo, orby, poor, ropy. | |
-4 letters: boo, bop, boy, bro, orb, pro, pry, rob, yob. | |
-5 letters: bo, by, op, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-o-o-p-r-y" | |
+5 letters: bronchoscopy, polyribosome. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6F 72 42 6F 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101111 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o o r   B o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006F 0072 0042 006F 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508181842368191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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