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helotry

[hel-uh-tree, hee-luh-]

hel·ot·ry

[hel-uh-tree, hee-luh-]
noun
1.
serfdom; slavery.
2.
helots collectively.

Origin:
1820–30; Helot + -ry
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Helotry is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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.
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helotry (ˈhɛlətrɪ, ˈhiː-)
 
n
1.  serfdom or slavery
2.  serfs or slaves as a class

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