bluesky
adjective
1.
fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
2.
(especially of securities) having dubious value; not financially sound: a blue-sky stock.
Origin:
1890–95
1890–95
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| blue-sky or blue-skies | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (modifier) of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result: a blue-sky project |
| —vb , -skies, -skying, -skied | |
| 2. | to theorize (about something that may not lead to any practical application) |
| blue-skies or blue-skies | |
| —n | |
| —vb | |
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Bluesky
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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