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.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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adjective

pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus.

Origin:
1470–80; < Greek Pontikós. See Pontus, -ic

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Pontic (ˈpɒntɪk)

—*adj*
	denoting or relating to the Black Sea

[C15: from Latin Ponticus, from Greek, from PontosPontus]

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pontic pon·tic (pŏn'tĭk)
n.
An artificial tooth on a fixed partial denture.

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