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.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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noun Informal.

a severe beating; flogging; thrashing.

Origin:
1800–10; hide² + -ing¹

verb (used with object)

to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?

to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.

to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.

verb (used without object)

to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.

noun

British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.

Verb phrase

hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English hiden, Old English hȳdan; cognate with Old Frisian hūda, Greek keúthein to conceal

Related forms

hid·a·ble, adjective

hid·a·bil·i·ty, noun

hid·er, noun

Synonyms
1. screen, mask, cloak, veil, shroud, disguise. Hide, conceal, secrete mean to put out of sight or in a secret place. Hide is the general word: to hide one's money or purpose; A dog hides a bone. Conceal, somewhat more formal, is to cover from sight: A rock concealed them from view. Secrete means to put away carefully, in order to keep secret: The spy secreted the important papers. 3. disguise, dissemble, suppress.

Antonyms
1. reveal, display.

noun

the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.

Informal.

the skin of a human being: Get out of here or I'll tan your hide!

safety or welfare: He's only worried about his own hide.

Australia and New Zealand Informal. impertinence; impudence.

verb (used with object)

Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.

to protect (a rope, as a boltrope of a sail) with a covering of leather.

Idiom

hide nor hair, a trace or evidence, as of something missing: They didn't find hide nor hair of the murder weapon. Also, hide or hair.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hȳd; cognate with Dutch huid, Old Norse hūth, Danish, Swedish hud, Old High German hūt (German Haut), Latin cutis skin, cutis; see hide¹

Related forms

hide·less, adjective

Synonyms
1. See skin.

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World English Dictionary

hiding¹ (ˈhaɪdɪŋ)

—n
1.	the state of concealment (esp in the phrase in hiding)
2.	hiding place a place of concealment

hiding² (ˈhaɪdɪŋ)

—n
1.	informal a flogging; beating
2.	be on a hiding to nothing to be bound to fail; to face impossible odds

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Word Origin & History

hide

"measure of land" (obsolete), O.E. hid, earlier higid, from hiw- "family" (cf. hiwan "household," hiwo "a husband, master of a household"), from PIE *keiwo- (cf. L. civis "citizen"). The notion was of "amount of land needed to feed one free family and dependents," usually 100 or 120 acres, but the amount

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could be as little as 60, depending on the quality of the land.

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Slang Dictionary

hide definition

n.
the skin. : I need to get some rays on my hide.

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