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numberwang

numberwang is the alternative letter-case form of Numberwang.

Noun capitalized: Numberwang

Numberwang (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang) A situation involving a bewildering succession of numbers.
    • Out of the window went the idea that perhaps children are humans with emotions and background and psyche and dream, and instead in rushed labelling and tracking and spreadsheets and monitoring and failure and rapid progress and interventions and scores and you-can-but-you-over-there-can't, and...2020 February 24, Greg Bottrill, School and the Magic of Children, SAGE, →ISBN, page 54
    • Only English (180) and French (55) players have won more than their 29 titles, with more Brazilian players (16) having won the Premier League than Irish (five), Welsh (four), Scottish (four) and Northern Irish (two) put together. That's numberwang!2021 April 5, David Broome, Little Fella, eBook Partnership, →ISBN
  2. (UK, slang) The manipulation of statistics.
    • Digital Radio Working Group: It must be Numberwang !2010 September 1, Grant Goddard, DAB Digital Radio: Licensed To Fail, Radio Books, →ISBN, page 4
    • So, as you consider the four million must-read insight pieces that come across your desk tomorrow (again perhaps a slight numberwang), consider whether their insights would last as long as Vitruvius or Ehrenberg's advice.2020 January 4, Karen Nelson-Field, The Attention Economy and How Media Works: Simple Truths for Marketers, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 26

Forms of numberwang

alternative formnumberwang

Origin of numberwang

number + wang, from a 2006 That Mitchell and Webb Look comedy sketch about a nonsensical game show in which contestants shout random numbers and the host replies "That's Numberwang!"

Questions about numberwang

What does numberwang mean?
Numberwang means a situation involving a bewildering succession of numbers.
What is numberwang the alternative letter-case form of?
Numberwang is the alternative letter-case form of Numberwang.
What part of speech is numberwang?
Numberwang is a noun.

Words near numberwang in the dictionary

  1. numbers stations
  2. numbers-matching
  3. numbersome
  4. numbertaker
  5. numbertakers
  6. numberwang
  7. numberwing
  8. numberwork
  9. numbery
  10. numbest
  11. numbeth

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