| covering fire | |
| —n | |
| military firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover | |
| covering fire | |
noun | |
| fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations; "artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal" [syn: cover] |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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. |