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Definition: Ball And Chain |
Ball And ChainNoun1. Heavy iron ball attached to a prisoner by a chain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Ball And Chain |
| Specialty definitions using "ball and chain": Nurr and Spell ♦ SCREEN-AND-CYCLONE REPAIRER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) | |
Lyrics | To wear that ball and chain ("House of the Rising Sun"; performing artist: The Animals) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Ball and Chain Gang (1968) Ball and Chain (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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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 |
ball and chain | 104 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ball and chain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | vasraverés. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allbay anday ainchay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-h-i-l-l-n-n" | |
-3 letters: baldachin. | |
-4 letters: balladic, cannibal, handball, handbill. | |
-5 letters: albinal, ancilla, bandana. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 6C 41 6E 64 43 68 61 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l l   A n d   C h a i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 006C 0041 006E 0064 0043 0068 0061 0069 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677878235807023774677580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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