delayed-action

[dih-leyd-ak-shuhn]

de·layed-ac·tion

[dih-leyd-ak-shuhn]
adjective
(of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
Also, de·lay-ac·tion [dih-ley-ak-shuhn] .


Origin:
1890–95
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Delayed-action is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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