sdrawkcab

• drawkcab

The word backwards backwards.

sdrawkcab (not comparable)

1. (humorous) Backwards.
   • 1988, Road and Track‎^[1], volume 39, Hearst Communications:

     […] Sdrawkcab race (that's backwards to you non-mirror writing readers), Lime Rock local Sam Posey blew away the competition.

   • 2007, Nada Gordon, Folly, →ISBN, page 97:

     Mary Oliver: The words of the spirit wash over us to be a tranquil picture of things that repeat, of a puppy named Kuku, of sdrawkcab things like witch hazel, and holiday ear powder.

   • 2016, Douglas Laurent, Valley of the Damned: Modern Tales of Old Valhalla‎^[2] (e-book), Xlibris US, →ISBN:

     Imagine taking a break and coming back only to find your words and phrases are all !sdrawkcab (one step forward two steps back, no wonder why she took that axe!–[…])

sdrawkcab (not comparable)

1. (humorous) Backwards.
   • 1919, Frederick Moxon, “Bartholomew Blump of Whumpp^[sic]”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume 47, Scribner, page 515:

     […] By custom or fashion he would not be bound / But walked yaw-sdrawkcab to save turning around, / And carried his cane with the knob on the ground […]

   • 1972, Outposts, numbers 63–75, Kraus, page 25:

     A more recent work is his Devil Trap; a three-dimensional revolving construction painted with words intended to confuse the devil who is unable to read sdrawkcab.

   • 1982, Fred White, 101 APPLE Computer Programming Tips & Tricks, →ISBN, page 17:

     […] removes it from the screen, stores it, and then displays it backwards! Yes, we said SDRAWKCAB. It's like looking through your TV tube from behind.

   • 1997 [1993], John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, UNIX for Dummies, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 315:

     But your fingers work a little faster than your brain and you get the two names switched (left-handed users are particularly prone to getting names sdrawkcab) — and blam! (again) you’ve just copied an obsoletee saved version over the current version.

   • 2004 [2003], Robert P. Miles, Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor‎^[3] (e-book), Wiley, →ISBN:

     Thanks to my niece, Sarah, who enjoys reading, writing, telling funny jokes and doing things s-d-r-a-w-k-c-a-b.

   • 2005, New Scientist, volume 185, numbers 2481-2486, New Science Publications, page 92:

     He points out that if you find such a word using elgooG—the search engine at www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ in which everything is displayed sdrawkcab—you can safely publish the results online.

   • 2022, Jo Owen, Myths of Leadership: Dispel the Misconceptions and Become an Inspirational Leader (e-book), Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 3:

     You can read the book in any order you want. You can dip in and out; start at the front and read to the end; or start at the end and work sdrawkcab. Read it all at once, or read just one chapter a day before starting work.

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