| brush fire | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a fire in bushes and scrub |
| 2. | a minor local war |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |