| petit jury | |
| —n | |
| Compare grand jury Also called: petty jury a jury of 12 persons empanelled to determine the facts of a case and decide the issue pursuant to the direction of the court on points of law | |
| petit juror | |
| —n | |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |