| spike heel | |
| —n | |
| Often shortened to: spike, stiletto, Also called (esp Brit): stiletto heel a very high heel on a woman's shoe, tapering to a very narrow tip | |
| 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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |