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rebar

[ree-bahr]

re·bar

[ree-bahr]
noun Building Trades Informal.
a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
Also, re-bar.


Origin:
1960–65, Americanism; re(inforcing) bar
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Rebar is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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.
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rebar
reinforcing bar
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