| cross-ply | |
| —adj | |
| Compare radial-ply (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls | |
| cross-ply | |
adjective | |
| of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |