| discount house | |
| —n | |
| 1. | chiefly (Brit) a financial organization engaged in discounting bills of exchange, etc on a large scale primarily by borrowing call money from commercial banks |
| 2. | chiefly (US) another name for discount store |
| 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. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |