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Little-known connection? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hyphen

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'connection?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

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

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