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Definition: Sellout |
SelloutNoun1. An act of betrayal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sellout (1952) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Margaret Thatcher | The government wants a peaceful settlement. But your government totally rejects a peaceful sellout. There would be neither honor nor credibility in our country or our people if we were to do that. |
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| "Sellout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sellout" is used about 9 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
sellout | 15 |
jewel sellout | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sellout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shfaqje (apparition, appearance, demonstration, display, emergence, emersion, exhibition, manifestation, parade, presentation, presentment, profession, raree show, reveal, screening, shew, show, showing, theatricals), likuidim i mallit, ekspozitë (display, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, fair, salon, show window). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разпродажба (bazaar, bazar, clearance, clearing, sale), предателство (bad faith, betrayal, disloyalty, treachery), предател (betrayer, rat, traitor), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references) | |
Czech | zrada (betrayal, lese majesty, perfidy, treachery, treason), prodejní hit, kasovní trhák. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکجافروختن , تاتری که تمام بلیطهایش بفروش رفته , خیانت کردن . (various references) | |
French | trahison, capitulation. (various references) | |
German | ausverkauftes haus, ausverkauf (clearance sale, closing-down sale, sale, selling off). (various references) | |
Greek | πώληση όλων των θέσεων παραστάσεωσ, προδοσία (betrayal, double cross, lese majesty, squeal, treachery, treason). (various references) | |
Hungarian | végeladás (closing-down sale), kiárusítás (bargain sale, clearance, job-line, jumble sale, sale). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terjual habis. (various references) | |
Manx | ard-chreck (clearance sale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elloutsay.(various references) | |
Russian | распродажа (clearance sale, close out, close-out, sale, yard sale). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rasprodaja (clearance sale, close out, sale), izdaja (betrayal, stab, treachery, treason). (various references) | |
Spanish | venta total, traición (betrayal, treachery, treason), éxito de taquilla. (various references) | |
Turkish | kapalı gişe (full house, house full), ihanet (betrayal, defection, infidelity, judas kiss, treachery), ele verme (betrayal, delation, denunciation, giving away), elden çıkarma (close out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпродаж (clearance), виставка (display, exhibition, set out, show), зрада (apostasy, betrayal, collaboration, perfidy, recreancy, sell, treason). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sellout": sellouts. (additional references) | |
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"Sellout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dellorto, Ellouz, Salaut, Selkup, Selloi, selloum, Silolota, Slevogt, zellot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sellout" (pronounced se"lou't) |
| 3 | -l ou' t | bailout, fallout, pullout, rollout. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outsell. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: solute, tousle, tulles. | |
-2 letters: losel, lotus, louse, louts, lutes, ousel, stole, stull, tells, telos, toles, tolls, tolus, touse, tules, tulle. | |
-3 letters: ells, lest, lets, lose, lost, lots, lout, lues, lust, lute, oles, oust, outs, sell, sloe, slot, slue, sole, soul, suet, tell, tels, toes, tole, toll, tolu, tule. | |
-4 letters: ell, els, let, leu, lot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outsells, outspell, outtells, outyells, pollutes, sellouts, toluoles. | |
+2 letters: closetful, cloudlets, loudliest, luteolins, outspells, polluters, rostellum, tollhouse. | |
+3 letters: absolutely, bottlefuls, closetfuls, guillemots, joyfullest, leucoplast, outbullies, outselling, outspelled, petiolules, postbellum, resolutely, rostellums, tollhouses, trolleybus, woefullest. | |
+4 letters: bluebottles, countlessly, desultorily, dissolutely, dolefullest, doubtlessly, ebullitions, eucalyptols, feuilletons, flocculates, guillotines, leucoplasts, outspelling, plenteously, subtotalled, tremulously, unloveliest. | |
+5 letters: adulterously, bellybuttons, counterspell, cupellations, equipollents, eucalyptoles, felicitously, gelatinously, heliolatrous, irresolutely, licentiously, meticulously, mournfullest, multiplexors, polypetalous, portcullises, prothalluses, rambouillets, ratatouilles, slothfulness, solubilities, trolleybuses, ultraviolets, volubilities. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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