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Definition: Blood Money |
Blood MoneyNoun1. Compensation paid to the family of a murdered person. 2. A reward for information about a murderer. 3. Paid to a hired murderer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Blood Money Money paid to a person for giving such evidence as shall lead to the conviction of another; money paid to the next of kin to induce him to forego his "right" of seeking blood for blood; money paid to a person for betraying another, as Judas was paid blood-money for showing the band the place where Jesus might be found. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BLOOD MONEY. The reward given by the legislature on the conviction of highwaymen, burglars, &c. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Crosswords: Blood Money |
| Specialty definitions using "blood money": THIEF TAKERS. (references) |
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Screenplays | People aren't born here; they're forged out of broken homes and blood money. It's not to say that there's no justice here, it's just hard to reach sometimes (Dead to Rights; writing credit: Flint Dille; Andre Emerson) I'm not charging you because I won't take blood money. You can't either (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blood Money (2003) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blood money | 31 |
blood money tom wait | 4 |
blood money movie | 2 |
blood money plasma | 2 |
from dusk till dawn 2 texas blood money movie | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blood money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | mordgeld. (various references) | |
Greek | αμοιβή εγκλήματοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כופר דם. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodblay oneymay.(various references) | |
Russian | компенсация за убийство. (various references) | |
Spanish | precio de la sangre. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-m-n-o-o-o-y" | |
-3 letters: benomyl, bloomed, boloney. | |
-4 letters: beyond, blonde, bloody, blooey, bloomy, boodle, boomed, doblon, dolmen, embody, emboly, lemony, loomed, looney, melody, mobled, monody, mooley, mooned, nobody, noodle. | |
-5 letters: bendy, blend, blond, blood, bloom, boned, boney, booed, boomy, demob, demon, dooly, doomy, doyen, dynel, ebony, lemon, lobed, loden, looby, looed, looey, loony, melon, model, moldy, monde. | |
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