| special interest | |
noun | |
| an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor |
| 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. |