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hideout

[hahyd-out]

noun

a safe place for hiding, especially from the law.

Also, hide-out.

Origin:
1870–75; noun use of verb phrase hide out

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Hideout is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

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.

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hideout (ˈhaɪdˌaʊt)

—n
1.	a hiding place, esp a remote place used by outlaws, etc; hideaway

—vb
2.	to remain deliberately concealed, esp for a prolonged period of time

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