interrobang

Meaning

Noun

• The nonstandard punctuation mark ‽ (a combination of ? and !), which may be used at the end of a sentence to express excitement or disbelief, or to indicate that it is a rhetorical question.

Origin

• A blend of Latin interrogātiō ("examination, inquiry, interrogation, questioning") + bang, coined in a 1962 article in the journal TYPEtalks by American advertising executive Martin K. Speckter (1915–1988), who invented the symbol.