back plate

back·plate

[bak-pleyt]
noun
1.
Building Trades. a wood or metal plate serving as a backing for a structural member.
2.
Armor. a piece of plate armor for protecting the back: worn as part of a cuirass.

Origin:
1650–60; back1 + plate1

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backplate

noun
plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass 
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Back plate is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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