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troublemaking

 [truhb-uhl-mey-ker]  

trou·ble·mak·er

   [truhb-uhl-mey-ker]
noun
a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
Origin:
1910–15; trouble + maker

Related forms
trou·ble·mak·ing, noun

Synonyms
instigator, fomenter, inciter, rabble-rouser.

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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.
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troublemaker (ˈtrʌbəlˌmeɪkə)
 
—n
a person who makes trouble, esp between people
 
'troublemaking
 
—adj, —n

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