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ampersand 

ampersand by Jade November 3, 2004
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amperstand 

A very common misspelling of the word, "ampersand" -- the 'and' symbol -- yeah this thing: ---> &
{Craig}: Hey -=ShoEboX=-, when did you name your cat Amperstand?
{-=ShoEboX=-}: It's Ampersand dammit! AMPERSAND!!!
amperstand by Telephony March 9, 2015

ampersand 

An ampersand is the symbol &, which was designed by German typesetter Manfred Johann Amper in 1634 as an abbreviation for the German word "und", which means "and" in English; hence the symbol was first known as "Amper's 'and' ", which was eventually syncopated into "ampersand", the term by which we know it today.
On a standard US keyboard the ampersand is on the same key as the numeral 7.

Her malformed pretzels looked like ampersands.

In formal symbolic logic the truth-functional connective AND is often represented by an ampersand.
ampersand by &y &erson October 26, 2010

ampersandy

Twisted or freakish. Like the ampersand &.
"There was this ampersandy biker guy in the bathroom eyeballing my junk at the urinal."
ampersandy by Cli June 29, 2006

Amperstand 

"How did the 'T' get in there? Stupid Blackberry!"
"So, it's amperstand+hearts+semicolon only without the +?"
Amperstand by Magraloo December 12, 2009

Ampersand 

noun: the sign "&" (standing for the word 'and', as in "U & I")

“&” was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the "&" coming after the letter 'Z'..........the alphabet was originally 27 characters long because '&' was an actual letter member.
But then Grammar Nazis decided "&" was not worthy of being in the alphabet, so they took it out (the same illogical mindset that decided Pluto was not a planet, but only a large asteroid.)
Ampersand, like Pluto were robbed of their identity!
Ampersand by Jimmy Fedd June 20, 2016