| restraining order | |
| —n | |
| (US) law an order issued by a civil court to a potential abuser to keep away from those named in the order | |
| 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. |