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point duty
World English Dictionary
| point duty | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic |
| 2. | the position at the head of a military patrol, regarded as being the most dangerous |
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Point duty
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. |
WordNet
| point duty | |
noun | |
| the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
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