| ear piercing | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the making of a hole in the lobe of an ear, using a sterilized needle, so that an earring may be worn fastened in the hole |
| —adj | |
| 2. | so loud or shrill as to hurt the ears |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |