| wharf rat | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any rat, usually a brown rat, that infests wharves |
| 2. | informal a person who haunts wharves, usually for dishonest purposes |
| 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. |