| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| 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. |
| Commonwealth of Independent States | |
| —n | |
| CIS a loose organization of former Soviet republics, excluding the Baltic States, formed in 1991 | |