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CAPTAIN SHARP

Specialty Definition: CAPTAIN SHARP

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Slang in 1811

CAPTAIN SHARP. A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting roguery, refuses to pay what he has lost. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: CAPTAIN SHARP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-h-i-n-p-p-r-s-t"

-3 letters: anaphasic, anarchist, cantharis, cantraips, chappatis, pancratia.

-4 letters: acapnias, aphasiac, apparats, archaist, aspirant, aspirata, cantraip, cantraps, cantrips, captains, chapatis, chappati, charpais, citharas, haircaps, harianas, paphians, papricas, partisan, piranhas, tranship.

-5 letters: acanthi, acapnia, acrasia, acrasin, anarchs, antiars, anticar, aphasia, aphasic, apparat, arnicas, artisan, canasta, cantrap, cantrip, capstan, captain, captans, carinas, caritas, catnaps, catnips, chapati, charpai.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAPTAIN SHARP


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

43 41 50 54 41 49 4E      53 48 41 52 50

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

    

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

01000011 01000001 01010000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 0054 0041 0049 004E      0053 0048 0041 0052 0050

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

3735505435434825342355250

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