type cast
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to cast (type).
adjective
2.
(of text to be printed) having the type already cast.
Origin:
1875–80
1875–80
Related forms
type-cast·er, noun
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Type cast
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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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