exclamation point en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Midwestern-US) audio
Meanings
- (US) The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
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(figuratively) An elongated shape like an exclamation point.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation-point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the Sawmill at Beaverton.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 112:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| exclamation points | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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¡ · bracket · stroke · period · ՜ · question mark · quotation marks · curly brackets · ‼ · full stop · ⁉ · space · ‽ · square bracket · hyphen · ﹗ · ellipsis · interrobang · Canada) · dash · ⁈ · interpunct · exclamation mark · brace · ❢ · ᥄ · colon · guillemet · bracket · quotation marks · slash · semicolon · fraction slash · ❣ · parentheses (US · comma · apostrophe