| common measure | |
| —n | |
| 1. | another term for common time |
| 2. | the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b |
| 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. |