eye-hole

eye·hole

[ahy-hohl]
noun
1.
a hole to look through, as in a mask or a curtain.
2.
a circular opening for the insertion of a pin, hook, rope, etc.; eye.

Origin:
1630–40; eye + hole

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eyehole (ˈaɪˌhəʊl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a hole through which something, such as a rope, hook, or bar, is passed
2.  the cavity that contains the eyeball; eye socket
3.  another word for peephole

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Eye-hole is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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 arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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