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interrobang

noun /ɪnˈtɛ.ɹəʊˌbæŋ/

  1. A combination of a question mark and an exclamation mark; ⟨!?⟩ or ⟨?!⟩.

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    Interrobang — !?, ?!, or ‽ / What?! You’ve never heard of the interrobang!? Really? Well, now you have, so all is forgiven. An interrobang is […] used to end sentences where you really want both the exclamation point and the question mark. […] The word is used to describe both the two side by side (!? or ?!) or the combined symbol (‽).

Where it comes from

A blend of French (point d')interrogation (“question mark”) or the equivalent term in another Romance language + bang (“exclamation mark, exclamation point”), coined in a 1962 article in the journal TYPEtalks by American advertising executive Martin Kiehra Speckter (1915–1988), who invented the symbol.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry interrobang (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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