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A short dash (6)

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I believe the answer is:

hyphen

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'a short dash' is the definition.

'a short dash' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'short dash' could be 'en' (en dash is a short dash half as long as an em dash) and 'en' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for hyphen that I've seen before include "Sign joining words" , "A horizontal word joiner" , "Word-joining mark" , "Line in a double-barrelled name, say" , "Horizontal words joiner" .)

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