| Main Entry: | close encounter |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a purported observation of an unidentified flying object or extraterrestrial being(s) |
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |