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rightabout-face

right about face

noun
1.
Military.
a.
a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
b.
the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
2.
rightabout (def. 2).
3.
any complete reversal, as of conduct or opinion.
Also, right·a·bout-face, right-a·bout-face.


Origin:
1805–15
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Rightabout-face is always a great word to know.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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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