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BFL

Specialty Definition: BFL

DomainDefinition

Slang

Adjective. Source: Allie. Definition: Big Fat Loser. Context: When you see a loser and you don't want them to know what you are talking about. Social Source: "The Girls". Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BFL

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BFL

EnglishBird fancier's lungN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Usage in Company Names: BFL

CountryName
India

Mphasis BFL Ltd

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BFL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bfl

93

bfl mart wal

27

bfl tracker

11

bfl fishing

9

bfl tour

5

bfl tournament

5

bass bfl tournament

4

bfl furniture

3

bfl fishing tournament

3

bfl software

2

bfl mart tour wal

2

bfl club womens

2

bfl mphasis

2

bass bfl fishing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BFL

Derivations

Words containing "BFL": subfloor, subfloors, subfluid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BFL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-f-l"
 

+1 letter: flab, flub.

 

+2 letters: bluff, fable, flabs, flubs, flyby.

 

+3 letters: baffle, bagful, barfly, befall, befell, beflag, beflea, befool, befoul, begulf, behalf, belfry, belief, biflex, bifold, bluffs, botfly, boxful, fabled, fabler, fables, feeble, feebly, fibril, fibula, fimble, flabby, flambe, flyboy, flybys, foible, fumble, sobful, tubful.

 

+4 letters: affable, affably, baffled, baffler, baffles, bagfuls, bagsful, bailiff, baleful, baneful, bashful, batfowl, beefalo, beefily, befalls, beflags, befleas, befleck, befools, befouls, begulfs, beliefs, bifidly, bifilar, bifocal, blowfly, blowoff, bluefin, bluffed, bluffer, bluffly, boatful, boffola, boiloff, bookful, bowlful, boxfuls, briefly, brimful, buffalo, effable, fablers, fabliau, fabling, fabular, fadable, falbala, febrile, feebler, fibrils, fibulae, fibular, fibulas, filbert, filibeg, fimbles, finable, fixable, flambee, flambes, flatbed, fleabag, flubbed, flubber, flubdub, flyable, flybelt, flyblew, flyblow, flyboat, flyboys, foibles, friable, fribble, fumbled, fumbler, fumbles, fusible, fusibly, lobefin, subfile, tubfuls.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BFL


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

42 46 4C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-.    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01000110 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#70 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0046 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

364046

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INDEX

1. Names: Company Usage
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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