brick bat

[brik-bat]

brick·bat

[brik-bat]
noun
1.
a piece of broken brick, especially one used as a missile.
2.
any rocklike missile.
3.
an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism: The critics greeted the play with brickbats.

Origin:
1555–65; brick + bat1
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Brick bat 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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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