Meanings
plural exclamation points
- USThe symbol !; an exclamation mark.
- figurativelyAn elongated shape like an exclamation point.
1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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