an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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.
1813, "beeline, straight line from place to place" (as through the air, rather than over land; in later 19c., esp. in ref. to railways that ran direct from city to city in the U.S., instead of meandering from town to town in search of stock subscriptions as early railways typically did), from
air (1) + line. Meaning "public aircraft transportation company" is from 1914.