Citations:interrobang

English citations of interrobang

Verb: "(chiefly humorous) to exclaim and question at the same time"

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• 1978, Jerry W. Brown, Church Staff Teams That Win‎^[1], page 19:

  The interrobang is a new symbol for staff members’ relationships that include both question marks and exclamation points. Such an attitude might be called “interrobanging” one’s way through staff ministry and Christian discipleship.

• 1983 June, Barbara Naness, “Am I Prepared for Processing?”, in Commander Magazine‎^[2], page 23:

  Global search, word wrapping and interrobanging become everyday activities, replacing proofreading, planning and polishing.

• 1998, Laura J. Mixon, Proxies‎^[3], page 270:

  “I think I can help Carli, but I have to move fast. Federal agents are going to descend on this place like locusts in about twenty minutes, max, and they’ll detain everyone. It’ll be days, at least, before they’re done interrobanging around.”

• 2001, Randy Graham, Quak, Quak Or, No Great Sheiks‎^[4], page 223:

  "What holiday?" interrobanged Herbert.

• 2009 12, Jacob Silvia, Qhoenix, Jacob P Silvia, →ISBN, page 190:

  "Qhoenix!?" interrobanged Lrig Lanoisnemid-Eno. "You can't do this!"

• 2012, Thomas D. Bryson, The Psychotic Preschoolers‎^[5], page 209:

  "What if we all wished together?" Babette interrobanged.

• 2015 May 16, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One:: Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivoracious Press, →ISBN, page 197:

  "Can't you ever think of anything except external appearances?!" He interrobanged exasperatedly.

• 2016, Edward Ramsell, Legacy‎^[6], unnumbered page:

  "Broke it!?" interrobanged Dac. "How could we break something that size? What are you thinking?"

• 2017, Bianca Mori, Chasing Waves‎^[7], unnumbered page:

  "What!" I splutter, interrobanging against my mind's inner walls.

• 2022 September 20, Randal Graham, Nether Regions, ECW Press, →ISBN:

  "Rhinnick worked with Dr. Peericks?!" gasped Ian, interrobanging like nobody's business.

• 2023 February 7, Michael Quinn Patton, Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

  The symbol on the left means NO interrobanging. Qualitative interviewing asks questions (?) without the exclamatory bang (!). You may want to insert this symbol on your interview guide to remind you: NO interrobanging.