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RUDE BOY

Specialty Definition: RUDE BOY

Domain	Definition
Slang	N. Source: It developed out of the 1950-60-70's ska scene in Jamaica and London, so that they could distinguish themselves from skinheads and mods. Definition: A male whose usual attire was black and white clothing, nice suits, polished shoes and checkers. Context: Used when refering to a person that fits the descriptoin above. Social Source: Punk rock subculture. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Usage: RUDE BOY

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Rude Boy (1980)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: RUDE BOY

Domain	Title
Music	Trojan Rude Boy Box Set [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: RUDE BOY

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
rude boy	86
ska rude boy	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: RUDE BOY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-r-u-y"
	-1 letter: buoyed, rebody.
	-2 letters: bored, buyer, derby, orbed, rebuy, redub, robed, uredo.
	-3 letters: bedu, bode, body, bore, bred, buoy, burd, bury, byre, doby, doer, dore, dory, dour, drub, dure, duro, dyer, euro, obey, orby, oyer, redo, robe, rode, roue, rube, ruby, rude, rued, yore, your.
	-4 letters: bed, bey, bod, boy, bro, bud, bur, buy, bye.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-r-u-y"
	+1 letter: bouldery.
	+2 letters: underbody.
	+3 letters: bodysurfed, bodysurfer, cloudberry, obdurately.
	+4 letters: bodybuilder, bodysurfers, currycombed, redoubtably.
	+5 letters: bodybuilders, reproducibly.
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Alternative Orthography: RUDE BOY

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

52 55 44 45 42 4F 59

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

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

01010010 01010101 01000100 01000101 00100000 01000010 01001111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#85 &#68 &#69 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0055 0044 0045 0042 004F 0059

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

525538392364959

INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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