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noun A punctuation mark in the form of a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point, used to end a simultaneous question and exclamation.

I had to go all the way to 16th place, interrobang, to find something that wasn't a retread from the hot 100.Don't hold your breath, but these kind of stats will start showing up on the site, someday.
The interrobang is only necessary if we accept one particular bit of nitpicky stylistic dogma.
⸘Unicode 5.1 added the inverted interrobang ‽ ext4, application expectations and power management about behavioural differences between ext3 and ext4 [1], most notably due to ext4's increased window of opportunity for files to end up empty due to both a longer commit window and delayed allocation of blocks in order to obtain a more pleasing on-disk layout. — Planet GNOME
Usually, in North America, punctuation goes outside always, unless a contextual exclamation point, period, question mark, or interrobang.
Speckter called his invention the "interrobang," a neologism that combines "interrogation" with "bang" (printer-speak for the exclamation mark).