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Definition: Jack-in-the-box |
Jack-in-the-boxNoun1. Plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We shall spring them from The Joker's Jack-In-The-Box, through that window, out over the sea, and into the waiting arms of The Penguin's Exploding Octopus! (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Jack-in-the-box" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Jack-in-the-box" is used about 10 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 (proper) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "jack-in-the-box"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), Djalë Që Del Nga Kutia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 'ид Фойерверк. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Panáèek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Varázsdoboz Kiugró Alakkal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Eoineen 'sy chishtey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ack-in-the-boxjay caixa-surpresa. (various references) Omuleţ Pe Arcuri. (various references) Попрыгунчик, Мошенник, 'интовой "омкрат. (various references) varalica (charlatan, chouse, crook, double-dealer, fake, fraud, gyp, impostor, mountebank, sharper, swindler, trickster, wheeler dealer), čupoglavac iz kutije. (various references) Caja Sorpresa, Caja De Resorte. (various references) Gubben I Lådan. (various references) กล่องของเล่นที่มีตุ๊กตาโผล่ขึ้นมาเมื่อเปิ"กล่อง. (various references) Kutudan Fırlayan Bebek, Kutudan Çıkan Yaylı Kukla. (various references) "винтовий "омкрат, Шулер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-i-j-k-n-o-t-x" | |
-3 letters: abjection, aitchbone. | |
-4 letters: exaction, inchoate, jacinthe. | |
-5 letters: achiote, aconite, backhoe, beatnik, benthic, bethank, bethink, biotech, botanic, cabinet, cohabit, exciton, exotica, hotcake, iceboat, inexact, jacinth, jacobin, jaconet, kenotic, ketonic, kitchen, niobate, thicken, tieback, xanthic. | |
| 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)4A 61 63 6B 2D 69 6E 2D 74 68 65 2D 62 6F 78 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00101101 01101001 01101110 00101101 01110100 01101000 01100101 00101101 01100010 01101111 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c k - i n - t h e - b o x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 006B 002D 0069 006E 002D 0074 0068 0065 002D 0062 006F 0078 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)446769771575801586747115688190 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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