lazy-susan

lazy Susan

noun
1.
a revolving tray for foods, condiments, etc., placed usually at the center of a dining table.
2.
any similar structure, as a shelf or tabletop, designed to revolve so that whatever it holds can be seen or reached easily.
Also, lazy susan, Lazy Susan.


Origin:
1915–20, Americanism

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lazy Susan
 
n
a revolving tray, often divided into sections, for holding condiments, etc

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Lazy-susan is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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