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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| 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. |
| Big Ben | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London |
| 2. | the clock in this tower |
| 3. | the tower |
| [C19: named after Sir Benjamin Hall, Chief Commissioner of Works in 1856 when it was cast] | |
The popular name for the huge clock mounted in a tower near the meeting place of the British Parliament in London. Big Ben strikes the quarter-hour with the familiar Westminster chimes.