forgotten-man
forgotten man
noun
1.
a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
2.
U.S. politics. the average wage earner, regarded as economically deprived and forgotten or ignored by the federal government during the Great Depression.
Origin:
1920–25
1920–25
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Forgotten-man
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. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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