| upsurge | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | literary chiefly (intr) to surge up |
| —n | |
| 2. | a rapid rise or swell |
| 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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |