swung dash

1. 1.

   a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word

   Broaderpunctuation

Questions about swung dash

What does swung dash mean?

swung dash means "a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word".

Is swung dash a common word?

swung dash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.