prerelease

[pree-ri-lees]

pre·re·lease

[pree-ri-lees]
noun
1.
something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to a period prior to an official release: prerelease photos of a new car; convicts housed in a prerelease center.

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Prerelease is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
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 fool or simpleton; ninny.

Origin:
1925–30; pre- + release
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