| electronic surveillance | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the use of such electronic devices as television monitors, video cameras, etc, to prevent burglary, shop lifting, break-ins, etc |
| 2. | monitoring events, conversations, etc, at a distance by electronic means, esp by such covert means as wiretapping or bugging |
| 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. |