| rain date | |
noun | |
| an alternative date set for some outdoor event in case it rains on the appointed date; "the rain date for the picnic will be the following Sunday" |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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. |