dump·ing-ground

[duhm-ping-ground]
noun
dump ( def 17 ).

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism

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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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