run-off

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run-off
"precipitation water drained by streams and rivers," 1892, from run (v.) + off. Meaning "deciding race after a tie" is from 1873; electoral sense is first attested 1924, Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Run-off is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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 gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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