per·fec·to

[per-fek-toh]
noun, plural per·fec·tos.
a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; < Spanish: literally, perfect

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perfecto (pəˈfɛktəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -tos
a large cigar that is tapered from both ends
 
[Spanish, literally: perfect]

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Perfecto is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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
It was one of only nine occasions that a pitcher has lost a perfecto with two out in the ninth.
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