dead-catty
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  1. mod.
    with only a slight bounce. (See the explanation at deadcat bounce. Securities markets.) : We expected the stock to go up a lot today, but the increase was no better than dead-catty.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Dead-catty is always a great word to know.
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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.
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