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octothorpe | foodfight |

Foodfight is likely misspelled.


Foodfight has no English definition.

As a noun octothorpe

is the hash or square symbol (#), used mainly in telephony and computing.

octothorpe

English

Alternative forms

* octothorp

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) The hash or square symbol (), used mainly in telephony and computing
  • * 1982 , Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play , Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
    • Octothorp is the
  • on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
  • * 2004 , Andrew Pitonyak, Openoffice.Org Macros Explained , Hentzenwerke, page 139
    • Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe (
  • ) characters.

    • Synonyms

    * hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, hashtag, tic-tac-toe sign, naughts and crosses sign/symbol

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (Number sign)

    foodfight

    Not English

    Foodfight has no English definition. It may be misspelled.