ballistophobia

Main Entry:  ballistophobia
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  a fear of missiles and projectiles, fear of being shot
Etymology:  Greek ballista 'catapult'
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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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