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Red-hot Poker

Definition: Red-hot Poker

Red-hot Poker

Noun

1. Widely cultivated hybrid poker plant.

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



Synonym: Red-hot Poker

Synonym: Kniphofia praecox (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Red-hot Poker

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Screenplays

Somebody's shoved a red-hot poker up our ass, and I want to know whose name is on the handle! (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

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

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Modern Translations: Red-hot Poker

Language Translations for "red-hot poker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

rinn yiarg. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ed-hotray okerpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Red-hot Poker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-k-o-o-p-r-r-t"

-3 letters: portered, pothered, reported, theropod.

-4 letters: photoed, redroot, torpedo, trooped, trooper.

-5 letters: dehort, deport, dorper, herder, hereto, hetero, hooked, hooker, hooped, hooper, hooted, hooter, hotrod, perked, perter, poohed, poorer, porker, ported, porter, pother, pretor, redtop, reperk, report, retook, retore, rhetor, rooked, rooted, rooter, teredo, thorpe, threep, torero, torpor, troked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Red-hot Poker


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

52 65 64 2D 68 6F 74      50 6F 6B 65 72

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

    

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

01010010 01100101 01100100 00101101 01101000 01101111 01110100 00100000 01010000 01101111 01101011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#104 &#111 &#116 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#107 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 002D 0068 006F 0074      0050 006F 006B 0065 0072

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

5271701574818625081777184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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