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interrobang

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in⋅ter⋅ro⋅bang

[in-ter-uh-bang]
–noun
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.


Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; interro(gation point) + bang 1 , printers' slang for an exclamation point
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in·ter·ro·bang also in·ter·a·bang   (ĭn-těr'ə-bāng')   
n.  A punctuation mark in the form of a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point, used to end a simultaneous question and exclamation.

[interro(gation point) + bang1, exclamation point (printers' slang).]
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