| brass tacks | |
| —pl n | |
| informal basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks) | |
| 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. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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