| Oxford comma | |
| —n | |
| a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word `and' or `or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books | |
| [C20: because it was traditionally a feature of the house style at Oxford University Press] | |
| Main Entry: | Oxford comma |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See serial comma |
| 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |