collar
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When collar helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A C L O R
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AR
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- CO start
- AR ending
- repeated letters
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- collar is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, l, o, r plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The AR ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
Anything that encircles the neck.
noun
A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
"a collar of brawn"
noun
Any encircling device or structure.
"A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath."
noun
(in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
noun
The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
noun
A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
noun
An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
noun
An arrest.
noun
A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
verb
To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
verb
To place a collar on, to fit with one.
"Collar and leash aggressive dogs."
verb
To seize, capture or detain.
verb
To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
verb
(law enforcement) To arrest.
verb
To bind in conversation.
"I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour."
verb
To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
verb
(BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.