| silent partner | |
| —n | |
| (US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): sleeping partner a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital | |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |