: a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers
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Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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Noun
Many used hyphens or asterisks to replace some of the word’s letters.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
This includes, but is not limited to: exclamation points, question marks, commas, hyphens, colons, apostrophes.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 May 2025
Verb
Normally, closed caption subtitling bleeps words in a variety of different ways: phrases, such as (bleep), [expletive], or [censored] may be used, though sometimes hyphens or asterisks are substituted instead (f–k, f---, or f*** are all examples.
—Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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“Hyphen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyphen. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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