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hop·sack·ing

   [hop-sak-ing]
noun
1.
bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
2.
Also, hop·sack  [hop-sak] . a coarse fabric made of cotton, wool, or other fibers and similar to burlap, used in the manufacture of wearing apparel.
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Origin:
1880–85; hop2 + sacking
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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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hopsacking

noun
a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing 
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