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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Kanaka (kəˈnækə, ˈkænəkə)

—n
1.	(esp in Hawaii) a native Hawaiian
2.	(Austral) (often not capital) any native of the South Pacific islands, esp (formerly) one abducted to work in Australia

[C19: from Hawaiian: man, human being]

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kanaka

U.S. nautical and Australian name for "native of South Sea islands," 1840, from Hawaiian kanaka "man" (Samoan tangata).

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