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Noun
exclamation point (plural exclamation points)
- (US) The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
- (figurative) An elongated shape like an exclamation point.
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: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.
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- ¡ (inverted exclamation mark/point)
- ‼ (double exclamation mark/point)
- ‽ (interrobang)
- ⁈
- ⁉
- ﹗ (small exclamation mark/point)
- ❢ (dingbat)
- ❣ (dingbat)
- ՜ (!) (Armenian)
- ᥄ (Limbu)
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