Meanings
alternative drawkcab
- humorousnot comparableBackwards.
[…] Sdrawkcab race (that's backwards to you non-mirror writing readers), Lime Rock local Sam Posey blew away the competition.
1988, Road and Track, volume 39, Hearst Communications2 more examples
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.
2007, Nada Gordon, Folly, →ISBN, page 97Imagine 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!–[…])
2016, Douglas Laurent, Valley of the Damned: Modern Tales of Old Valhalla (e-book), Xlibris US, →ISBN
alternative drawkcab
- humorousnot comparableBackwards.
Thanks to my niece, Sarah, who enjoys reading, writing, telling funny jokes and doing things s-d-r-a-w-k-c-a-b.
2004 [2003], Robert P. Miles, Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor (e-book), Wiley, →ISBN5 more examples
[…] 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 […]
1919, Frederick Moxon, “Bartholomew Blump of Whumpp^([sic])”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume 47, Scribner, page 515A 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.
1972, Outposts, numbers 63–75, Kraus, page 25[…] 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.
1982, Fred White, 101 APPLE Computer Programming Tips & Tricks, →ISBN, page 17But 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.
1997 [1993], John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, UNIX for Dummies, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 315He 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.
2005, New Scientist, volume 185, numbers 2481-2486, New Science Publications, page 92
Origin
The word backwards backwards.
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sdrawkcab. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sdrawkcab
“sdrawkcab.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sdrawkcab. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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