red·brick

[red-brik]
adjective British Informal. ( sometimes initial capital letter )
of, pertaining to, or associated with a redbrick university.
Also, red-brick.


Origin:
1705–15; red1 + brick

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redbrick (ˈrɛdˌbrɪk) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
(modifier) denoting, relating to, or characteristic of a provincial British university of relatively recent foundation, esp as distinguished from Oxford and Cambridge

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Redbrick 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.
Example sentences
Redbrick tobacco warehouses are used for shopping malls and condos.
They settled on a first-floor office in a redbrick building next door to the county-city hall.
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