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what-if

[hwuht-if, hwot, wuht, wot]

what-if

[hwuht-if, hwot, wuht, wot]
adjective
1.
hypothetical: a what-if scenario.
noun
2.
a hypothetical case or situation; conjecture: a series of what-ifs.

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What-if is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.

Origin:
1980–85
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what-if
 
n
informal a hypothetical question; speculation: one of the great what-ifs of modern history

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