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2. transf. a. A short pause between two syllables in speaking.
1868 GEO. ELIOT Sp. Gipsy I. 15 Whistles low notes or seems to thrum his lute As a mere hyphen 'twixt two syllables Of any steadier man. 1872 C. KING Mountain. Sierra Nev. x. 208 With hyphens of silence between each two syllables.
b. A small connecting link.
1868 G. DUFF Pol. Surv. 169 It was a bridge for migrations. It was a hyphen, connecting different races. 1881 Daily Tel. 21 June 6/8 M. de Lesseps, who is the sworn foe of all such geographical hyphens [isthmuses].
...and then there's the verb.
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