last word

noun
1.
the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
2.
a final or definitive work, statement, etc.: This report is the last word on the treatment of arthritis.
3.
the latest, most modern thing: Casual hairdos are the last word this season.

Origin:
1880–85

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last word

noun
1. the final statement in a verbal argument; "she always gets the last word" 
2. an authoritative statement; "my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take" 
3. elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: chic
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Last word is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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 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.
Example sentences
Science will have the last word on true human nature.
The last word may, nevertheless, come from a satellite.
Now, a study of single skull cannot be the last word about an entire population
  of hominids.
But that is unlikely to be the last word: an appeal is in the works.
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