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moss-trooper

[maws-troo-per, mos-]

moss·troop·er

[maws-troo-per, mos-]
noun
1.
a marauder who operated in the mosses, or bogs, of the border between England and Scotland in the 17th century.
2.
any marauder.

Origin:
1645–55; moss + trooper

moss·troop·er·y, noun
moss·troop·ing, noun, adjective
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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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moss-trooper

noun
a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland) 
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