| war of nerves | |
| —n | |
| the use of psychological tactics against an opponent, such as shattering his morale by the use of propaganda | |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |