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Definition: Uppercut |
UppercutNoun1. A swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uppercut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Crosswords: Uppercut |
| Non-English Usage: "Uppercut" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (uppercut), Spanish (uppercut), Swedish (uppercut). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Uppercut O'Brien (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Uppercut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uppercut" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "uppercut": hook-cum-uppercut. | |
| 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 |
uppercut | 11 |
management uppercut | 3 |
lance uppercut | 2 |
boxing love uppercut | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uppercut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | goditje nga poshtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هيمنة (ascendancy, dominance, domination, overriding, predominance, predomination, sway), لكمة (belt, chap, jab, knocking, punch, sock, swing, swipe, wallop), صفعة (cake, clap, cuff, slap, slat, smack, swipe, thwack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | апъркат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvedák (Jack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مشتی که اززیربه چانه حریف زده شود, اززیرمشت زدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | uppercut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kinnhakenschlag, kinnhaken (hook to the chin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכת ס טר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | horogütés, felüt (to pitch, to sky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | montante (incoming, jamb, post, strut, upright). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アダ スストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult, adult education, adult shop, adult video, assembly, at, at bat, at home, attenuator, axe, sex shop, upper, upper-middle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アッパーカット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercutuppay апперкот. (various references) aperkat. (various references) uppercut, gancho al mentón. (various references) uppercut, krokslag uppåt. (various references) aparkat, alttan vuruş. (various references) аперкот. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uppercut": uppercuts, uppercutting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-p-p-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cupper, precut. | |
-3 letters: crept, cruet, curet, cuter, cutup, eruct, erupt, recut, truce, upper. | |
-4 letters: cure, curt, cute, ecru, perp, pert, prep, puce, pure, repp, true. | |
-5 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur, cut, ecu, pec, pep, per, pet, pup, pur, put, rec, rep, ret, rue, rut, tup. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-p-p-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: uppercuts. | |
+4 letters: uppercutting. | |
+5 letters: supercomputer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 70 65 72 63 75 74 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. .--. . .-. -.-. ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p p e r c u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0070 0065 0072 0063 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5582827184698786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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