Siamese twin

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And one might even get crazy and use the interrobang for variety’s sake, which is the Siamese twin of an exclamation mark and question mark.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2014

For a nauseating moment I could see myself almost joined to him, like a vile Siamese twin, looking over his shoulder at the book he had opened .

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014

I felt that I was starring in my own episode of "Extraordinary People" and had encountered my Siamese twin.

From Salon • May 12, 2011

And Lehman Brothers is in the play as well, portrayed by two actors in an overcoat as a Siamese twin.

From Time • Mar. 25, 2010

But music's sister-art, poetry, which had not yet been proclaimed as its Siamese twin, as it was later in the artistic works of the future, must not be omitted.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von