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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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. | |
| 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 |
ministry of silly walk | 7 |
silly walk | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4C 4C 59      57 41 4C 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001100 01001100 01011001 00100000 01010111 01000001 01001100 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I L L Y   W A L K |
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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