backcast

[bak-kast, -kahst]

back·cast

[bak-kast, -kahst]
noun
a short backward and often upward swing of a fishing rod, its line, and its lure in preparation for the cast that immediately follows.

Origin:
1570–80, for an earlier sense; back2 + cast1
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Backcast is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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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