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PROPELLER HEAD

Specialty Definition: PROPELLER HEAD

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Propeller head n. Used by hackers, this is syn. with geek. Non-hackers sometimes use it to describe all techies. Prob. derives from SF fandom's tradition (originally invented by old-time fan Ray Faraday Nelson) of propeller beanies as fannish insignia (though nobody actually wears them except as a joke). Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: PROPELLER HEAD

Specialty definitions using "PROPELLER HEAD": geek out. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PROPELLER HEAD

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

propeller head

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: PROPELLER HEAD

Misspellings

"PROPELLER HEAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: propellor head. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PROPELLER HEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-l-l-o-p-p-r-r"

-4 letters: propelled, propeller, rappelled, repapered, repeopled, repleader.

-5 letters: appellee, appellor, dapperer, deplorer, hollered, lappered, loppered, peephole, prepared, rappeled, reloader, repealed, repealer, repelled, repeller, repeople, repolled, rerolled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PROPELLER HEAD


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

50 52 4F 50 45 4C 4C 45 52      48 45 41 44

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

    

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

01010000 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0050 0045 004C 004C 0045 0052      0048 0045 0041 0044

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

505249503946463952242393538

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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