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Vice Squad

Definition: Vice Squad

Vice Squad

Noun

1. A police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution.

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

Modern Usage: Vice Squad

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Vice Squad Women (1973)

Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)

Vice Squad (1982)

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

Commercial Usage: Vice Squad

Domain	Title
Books	Vice Squad (reference) Working Vice: The True Story of St. Lucie J. Duvall, America's First Woman Vice Squad Chief (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hollywood Vice Squad (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Very Best of Vice Squad (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vice Squad

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
vice squad	70
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Vice Squad

Language		Translations for "vice squad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		zedenpolitie (morality squad). (various references)

French		police des moeurs, moeurs/les, brigade des moeurs. (various references)

German		Sittenpolizei (morality squad). (various references)

Pig Latin		icevay adsquay

Swedish		sedlighetspolis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Vice Squad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-q-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: advices, caiques, casqued.
	-3 letters: adieus, advice, advise, caique, casque, caused, cavies, davies, equids, sacque, sauced, vesica, visaed.
	-4 letters: acids, adieu, aides, asdic, aside, cades, cadis, caids, cased, cause, caved, caves, cavie, cedis, daces, devas, dices, divas, dives, duces, equid, ideas, qaids, quads, quais, quasi, quids, saice, sauce, saved, scudi, squad, squid, suave, uveas, viced, vices, vised.
	-5 letters: aced, aces, acid, aide, aids, asci, aves, avid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, case, cave, cedi, cuds, cued, cues, dace, dais, deva, devs, dice, dies, disc, diva, dive, duce, duci, dues, ecus, iced, ices, idea, ides, qaid, quad, quai, quid, sade, sadi, said, save, scad, scud, sice, side, sued, used, uvea, vacs, vase, vaus, vice, vide, vied, vies, visa, vise.
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Alternative Orthography: Vice Squad

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

56 69 63 65 53 71 75 61 64

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

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

01010110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110001 01110101 01100001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#113 &#117 &#97 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0063 0065 0053 0071 0075 0061 0064

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

5675697125383876770

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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