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FEAR AND LOATHING

Specialty Definition: FEAR AND LOATHING

DomainDefinition

Computing

Fear and loathing n. [from Hunter S. Thompson] A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous -- Intel 8086s, or COBOL, or {EBCDIC, or any IBM machine bigger than a workstation. "Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing time!". Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: FEAR AND LOATHING

Specialty definitions using "FEAR AND LOATHING": Blue GlueCOmmon Business Oriented LanguageEBCDIC, eighty-column mindJob Control Languagelike kicking dead whales down the beachmess-dos. (references)

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Modern Usage: FEAR AND LOATHING

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What's next Mr. Fear and Loathing in Nitz-Vegas? (Undergrads; writing credit: Kid Vegas)

Movie/TV Titles

Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978)

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

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Commercial Usage: FEAR AND LOATHING

DomainTitle

Books

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FEAR AND LOATHING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fear and loathing in las vegas

351

fear and loathing in las vegas picture

25

fear and loathing in los vegas

7

fear and loathing in las vegas dvd

4

fear and loathing in las vegas movie

4

fear and loathing in las vegas wavs

3

fear and loathing in las vegas sound

3

fear and loathing in las vegas poster

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FEAR AND LOATHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-f-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-r-t"

-3 letters: deflagration.

-4 letters: farthingale, gradational.

-5 letters: dethroning, fatherland, fingerhold, foredating, hinterland, internodal, lanthanide, longhaired, negational, refloating, rehandling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FEAR AND LOATHING


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

46 45 41 52      41 4E 44      4C 4F 41 54 48 49 4E 47

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

        

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

01000110 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01001100 01001111 01000001 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0041 0052      0041 004E 0044      004C 004F 0041 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047

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

40393552235483824649355442434841

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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