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Cuckoo's Nest

Definition: Cuckoo's Nest

Cuckoo's Nest

Noun

1. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

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

Synonyms: Cuckoo's Nest

Synonyms: booby hatch (n), crazy house (n), funny farm (n), funny house (n), loony bin (n), madhouse (n), nut house (n), nuthouse (n), sanatorium (n), snake pit (n). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Cuckoo's Nest

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Cuckoo's Nest

Domain	Title
Books	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference) Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink's Guide to Keeping Polly from Going Crackers and You Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (reference) Cliffsnotes One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference) The Jack Nicholson Collection (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Pledge, The Witches of Eastwick) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Three Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Cuckoo's Nest

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-c-c-e-k-n-o-o-s-s-t-u"
	-4 letters: coconuts, contuses, countess, stuccoes.
	-5 letters: coconut, concuss, contuse, cuckoos, nostocs, sconces, sockets, soonest, stuccos, sunkets, tonuses, tussock, uncocks.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Cuckoo's Nest

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

43 75 63 6B 6F 6F 27 73 4E 65 73 74

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

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

01000011 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101111 01101111 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#111 &#111 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#78 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0075 0063 006B 006F 006F 0027 0073 004E 0065 0073 0074

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

378769778181985248718586

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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