( sometimes initial capital letter ) a waterfront section in San Francisco: piers and seafood restaurants.
Origin: 1840–50, Americanism; < American Spanish,Spanish: pier, docking place, equivalent to embarcad(o) past participle of embarcar to embark, launch + -ero < Latin-ārium-arium
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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.