“jack, be nimble”
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“Jack, Be Nimble” definition
A nursery rhyme:
Jack, be nimble;
Jack, be quick;
Jack, jump over the candlestick.
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“jack, be nimble”
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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