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amidships

[uh-mid-ships]

a·mid·ships

[uh-mid-ships]
adverb
1.
in or toward the middle part of a ship or aircraft; midway between the ends.
2.
along the central fore-and-aft line of a ship or aircraft.
3.
in or toward the center of anything: a long, narrow office with a desk placed amidships.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft.

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Amidships is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
Also, a·mid·ship.


Origin:
1685–95; amid + ship + -s1
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amidships (əˈmɪdʃɪps)
 
adv, —adj
nautical at, near, or towards the centre of a vessel

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