counterpunch

[koun-ter-puhnch]

coun·ter·punch

[koun-ter-puhnch]

Origin:
1675–85; counter- + punch1
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To counterpunch

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Counterpunch is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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.
Collins
World English Dictionary
counterpunch (ˈkaʊntəˌpʌntʃ)
 
vb
1.  to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
 
n
2.  a return punch

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT