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 calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
phr. going to. (Eye-dialect. Used in writing only for effect. Used in the examples of this dictionary.) : I'm gonna get you, you little dickens!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Issuing a press release saying, essentially, we're all gonna die means they should do some due diligence.
We really didn't tell the kids what was gonna happen.
And what we're seeing is that that isn't gonna work on its own, it has never worked on its own.
And secondly, a lot is gonna happen between now and the nominating process.
Not gonna tell you to open your mind or your wallet.
Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right, all right.
If you meddle with it you're only gonna make it worse.
They gonna pay or my name ain't what it is, my pop name wasn't what it was, they gonna pay.
Changes in rainfall aren't gonna matter a butterfly's fart to undersea fault lines.
But that's not gonna stop the military from obsessing over them anyway.