: a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers
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Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
Drivers can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, spaces, and symbols including: hyphens, periods, hearts, stars, or silhouettes of the State of Texas.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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Noun
His signature with colons and hyphens separating his first, middle and last names is one example.
—Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
Drivers can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, spaces, and symbols including: hyphens, periods, hearts, stars, or silhouettes of the State of Texas.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 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 20 Jan. 2025.
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