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B-BACK

Specialty Definition: B-BACK

DomainDefinition

Slang

Noun. Source: From the term "I'll be back", which was shortened. Definition: A code for a customer whom has previously made a purchase with a designer, that comes back to the Stoe and asks for the same designer by name. Context: General gallery conversation. All employees use the term as a code. It's announced over the intercom as well when designer has an "up"* see Lexical term. Social Source: Interior Designers at Ethan Allen. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Usage Frequency: B-BACK

"B-BACK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "B-BACK" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: B-BACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-k"

-1 letter: back.

-2 letters: cab, kab.

-3 letters: ab, ba, ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-k"
 

+2 letters: backbit, buyback.

 

+3 letters: backbeat, backbend, backbite, backbone, backstab, bareback, blackboy, blowback, brickbat, buckbean, buybacks.

 

+4 letters: backbeats, backbench, backbends, backbiter, backbites, backblock, backboard, backbones, backstabs, blackball, blackbird, blackbody, blackboys, blowbacks, bootblack, brickbats, brushback, buckbeans, buckboard, buckyball.

 

+5 letters: backbiters, backbiting, backbitten, backblocks, backboards, barebacked, blackballs, blackberry, blackbirds, blackboard, bootblacks, brushbacks, buckboards, buckyballs, jackrabbit.

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

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Alternative Orthography: B-BACK


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

42 2D 42 41 43 4B

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

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

01000010 00101101 01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#45 &#66 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 002D 0042 0041 0043 004B

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

361536353745

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1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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