Dingbat

To spice up the design, he added some decorative shapes with a dingbat font.

The head of the cult was a total dingbat with some really crazy beliefs.

These days, it seems that any dingbat who's starred in a couple of films feels qualified to run for President.

Don't pay attention to him. He's a real dingbat.

He's such a dingbat. I wish he would be serious for once!

'Midge was such a dingbat', Jenny Fields wrote in her autobiography, 'that she went to Hawaii for a vacation during World War Two.'

I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats

The fire department is out here because some dingbat parked in the red zone.

"The compulsive editor, when checking the specs on an article, can't help checking also for such items as initial capital and closing dingbat, if they are used routinely. These decorative items have a way of being forgotten..."

This can be a dingbat, anagram, word puzzle, riddle or other quick warm-up activity and demonstrates to your students that when they come into your lessons, you get them thinking right away.