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Definition: Popsicle |
PopsicleNoun1. Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PopsicleSynonyms: ice lolly (n), lollipop (n), lolly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Popsicle |
| English words defined with "popsicle": ice lolly ♦ lollipop, lolly. (references) |
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Screenplays | Negative, I am a meat popsicle. (The Fifth Element; writing credit: Luc Besson) I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle. (The Warriors; writing credit: Sol Yurick; David Shaber) Try this on for sizeBlood drenched frozen tampon popsicle! (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Popsicle Parade of Stars (1950) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Freeze juice in an ice cube tray and eat it like a popsicle. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "popsicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | akullore me lëng frutash (sorbet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冰棍' (frozen sucker, ice-lolly, ice-sucker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sucette glacée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eis am stiel (lollipop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アーリア人 (art deco, art nouveau, Aryan, climbing irons, crampons, eye, eye shadow, eyeshade, frozen treat similar to a Popsicle, IACA, ice, ice candy, ice cream, ice cream soda, ice cube, ice dancing, ice hockey, ice pail, ice pick, ice rink, ice show, ice skating place, ice smack, ice tongs, icebox, icecream sundae, iced coffee, iced tea, icefall, Iceland, ice-skating, icetea, icing, icing the puck, icon, iconify, ILO, IMF, intelligence quotient, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, ion, IQ, iron, iron club, measure of area, metal pins of climbing shoes, Rh, Rhesus factor, skating rink, to take the radius). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アイスキャンデー (ice candy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opsiclepay sladoled na štapiću. (various references) isglass (water ice). (various references) buzlu şeker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "popsicle": popsicles. (additional references) | |
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"Popsicle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pasikale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "popsicle" (pronounced pÄ"psikul) |
| 5 | -s i k u l | bicycle, classical, icicle, lexical, neoclassical, nonsensical, paradoxical, semiclassical, tricycle. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: polices. | |
-2 letters: colies, copies, peplos, pilose, poleis, police, polies, popsie, splice. | |
-3 letters: ceils, clips, clops, close, coils, coles, copes, copse, cosie, epics, lopes, oleic, pepos, piles, pipes, pisco, plies, plops, poise, poles, polis, popes, scope, sepic, slice, slipe, slope, socle, solei, speil, spice, spiel, spile, spoil. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, clip, clop, coil, cole. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: episcopal, popsicles. | |
+2 letters: pitchpoles, scaloppine. | |
+3 letters: episcopally, polariscope, scaloppines. | |
+4 letters: pilocarpines, polariscopes. | |
+5 letters: cephalosporin, glycopeptides, laparoscopies, perspicuously, postepileptic, preceptorials, precipitously, prospectively, psephological. | |
| 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)50 6F 70 73 69 63 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .--. ... .. -.-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p s i c l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0073 0069 0063 006C 0065 |
| 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)5081828575697871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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