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tumble bug

[tuhm-buhl-buhg]

tum·ble·bug

[tuhm-buhl-buhg]
noun
any of several dung beetles that roll balls of dung in which they deposit their eggs and in which the young develop.

Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism; tumble + bug1
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Tumble bug 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 calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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