kɒn noun
any of several alert statuses for U.S. military forces, ranked numerically from normal, 5, to maximum readiness, 1.
Origin:
def(ense readiness) con(dition)
def(ense readiness) con(dition)
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| DEFCON defense readiness condition |
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Defcon
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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