Spread Eagle

Definition: Spread Eagle

Spread Eagle

Noun

1. An emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States.

2. A skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line.

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

Slang in 1811

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

Crosswords: Spread Eagle

Albanian

shtrij krahët, mburrues, mburravec (blusterer, boaster, bouncer, brag, braggadocio, braggart, bucko, Hector, ostentatious, scaramouch, whipper-snapper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منفرج الأيدي والأرجل, ‏نسر ناشر, ‏شوفيني (chauvinistic), ‏بسط ذراعيه ورجليه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

фигура при кънки, шовинистически, бомбастичен (high-flown, mandarin, mouth-filling, mouthy, pompous, puffy, sounding, tumid, turgid), просвам (stretch), държа шовинистични речи. (various references)

Czech

roztáhnout se (expand, give, outspread, outstretch, string out), chvástavý (blustery, swanky, swashbuckler, vainglorious). (various references)

French

envoyer rouler qn les quatre fers en l'air, envoyer rouler qn, chauvin, aigle déployée. (various references)

Greek 

κομπαστήσ (ranter, vaunter). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרוס איברים. (various references)

Hungarian

szétfeszít (to prise open), soviniszta (chauvinist, chauvinistic, hundred-percenter, jingo). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadspray eagleay.(various references)

Russian 

распластать, распластанный, высокопарный (altisonant, grandiloquent, heroic, high-flown, magniloquent, turgid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raširenih nogu i ruku, privezati raširenih ruku i nogu. (various references)

Swedish

med utsträckta armar och ben. (various references)

Turkish

kol ve ayak bileklerini birbirine bağlamak, gergin kanatlı kartal, el ve ayaklarını birbirine değdirme, şovenizm (chauvinism, flag-waving), şoven (chauvinist, chauvinistic, flag-waver, flag-waving, hundred-percenter, jingo), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, ornate, overdone, puffy, slobbery, stagey, stagy, steep, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded), aşırı milliyetçilik (chauvinism, flag-waving, jingoism), aşırı milliyetçi (chauvinistic, flag-waver, flag-waving, hundred-percenter, jingo). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпластувати, розпластаний (flat, outstretched, prone), шовіністичний (chauvinistic), говорити пихато, орел з розпростертими крилами. (various references)

Misspellings

"Spread Eagle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spreadeagle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: repledges.

-3 letters: degrease, gapeseed, laagered, peerages, pleaders, pledgees, pledgers, presaged, rapeseed, relapsed, released, repealed, repleads, repledge, resealed.

-4 letters: alegars, dealers, degrees, dragees, earlaps, elapsed, galeres, geladas, gelders, grasped, greased, laagers, lagered, leaders, leapers, ledgers, parades, pearled, pedlars, pedlers, peelers, peerage, pelages, pleader, pleased, pleaser, pledgee, pledger, pledges, preaged, presage, presale, redlegs, regaled, regales.