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SILLY WALK

Specialty Definition: SILLY WALK

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Silly walk vi. [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] 1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task. Like grovel, but more random and humorous. "I had to silly-walk through half the /usr directories to find the maps file." 2. Syn. fandango on core. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SILLY WALK

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

ministry of silly walk

7

silly walk

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SILLY WALK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-k-l-l-l-s-w-y"

-3 letters: alkyls, allyls.

-4 letters: alkyl, allyl, kails, kills, lalls, sally, silky, silly, skill, slily, swail, swill, wails, walks, walls, wally, wills, willy, yawls, yills.

-5 letters: ails, alky, alls, ally, awls, ilka, ilks, ills, illy, kail, kays, kill, laky, lall, laws, lays, lily, sail, saki, sall, sial, silk, sill, slaw, slay, sway, syli, wail, walk.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SILLY WALK


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

53 49 4C 4C 59      57 41 4C 4B

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

    

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

01010011 01001001 01001100 01001100 01011001 00100000 01010111 01000001 01001100 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#76 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004C 004C 0059      0057 0041 004C 004B

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

5343464659257354645

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