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Snake Eyes

Definition: Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes

Noun

1. When two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes'.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Snake Eyes

Synonym: craps (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Snake Eyes

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Screenplays

I seen 'em, Ned, I seen the angel of death, he's got snake eyes. (Unforgiven; writing credit: Walon Green; Roy N. Sickner)

Snake Eyes, when are you going to retire? (You Can't Do That on Television; writing credit: Jean Chatenet; Jean Cosmos)

Movie/TV Titles

Vegas 2: Snake Eyes (1990)

Snake Eyes (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: Snake Eyes

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Snake Eyes

Computer Images:
Snake Eyes

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snake Eyes

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

snake eyes

128

snake eyes golf

70

snake eyes golf club

59

gi joe snake eyes

20

snake eyes wedge

11

snake eyes quick strike

10

snake eyes putter

9

snake eyes irons

6

snake eyes driver

4

snake eyes viper

4

snake eyes movie

4

snake eyes fire forged

3

snake eyes golf bag

3

snake eyes club

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Snake Eyes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-k-n-s-s-y"

-2 letters: skeanes.

-3 letters: akenes, eyases, skeane, skeans, skeens, skenes, snakes, snakey, sneaks, sneaky.

-4 letters: akees, akene, eases, ensky, essay, kanes, keens, knees, sakes, sanes, seeks, sensa, sense, skean, skeen, skees, skene, snake, snaky, sneak, snyes, sykes, yanks, yeans, yeses.

-5 letters: akee, anes, asks, ayes, ease, easy, ekes, eses, eyas, eyen, eyes, eyne, kaes, kane, kays.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snake Eyes


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

53 6E 61 6B 65      45 79 65 73

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

    

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

01010011 01101110 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000101 01111001 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#69 &#121 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 0061 006B 0065      0045 0079 0065 0073

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

5380677771239917185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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