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SHANKING

Specialty Definition: SHANKING

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Slang

Verb. Source: A natural progression from the British expressions "to shack up" and "shagging". Definition: This means to have a very brief and rushed sexual encounter. It is also known as a quikie. Context: Used when two people are acting in the passion of the moment and decide to have sex spontaneously and quickly. Social Source: Weathered Irish Nomads. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHANKING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ball golf shanking

4

shanking

4

golf shanking

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHANKING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-k-n-n-s"

-1 letter: hanking, shaking, snaking.

-2 letters: ashing, asking, gaskin, kiangs, saning.

-3 letters: ankhs, gains, ginks, gnash, haiks, hangs, hanks, kains, khans, kiang, kinas, kings, knish, nighs, sangh, shank.

-4 letters: agin, ains, akin, anis, ankh, gain, gash, ghis, gink, gins, hags, haik, hang, hank, hins, hisn, inks, inns, kain, khan, khis, kina, king, kins, nags, nans, nigh.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-k-n-n-s"
 

+3 letters: handshaking, unshackling.

 

+4 letters: handshakings, thanksgiving.

 

+5 letters: benchmarkings, stickhandling, thanksgivings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHANKING


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

53 48 41 4E 4B 49 4E 47

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0041 004E 004B 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5342354845434841

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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