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What do you call this in Ruby?

What?	Name
=>	hashrocket
=>	heavy arrow
=>	fat arrow
<=>	spaceship
=	equal
=	half mesh
==	equals
==	unassembled hashtag
===	threequals
!=	not equals
<=	less than or equals
>=	greater than or equals
=~	kind of equals
=~	matches
=~	is like
=~	eek squeak
=~	cigarette operator
=~	equal like
=~	bacon cannon
=~	pretty much
~	tilde
~	twiddle
~	squiggle
~>	approximately greater
~>	approximate
~>	optimistic
~>	version match operator
~>	twiddlewalka
~>	pessimisive match
~>	pessimistic operator
~>	roughly equals
~>	harpoon
~>	tadpole
#	octothorpe
#	hash
#	pound
#	mesh
->	lambda literal
->	stabby lambda
->	dash rocket
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<%=	skull tag
!	not
!	bang
!	wow
*	splat
*	twinkle
{}	braces
{}	curly
{}	squiggly brackets
()	parens
()	parentheses
()	wax/wane
()	southern hemisphere
[]	brackets
[ ]	squadrons
foo[0]	sub
?:	elvis
?:	conditional operator
?:	ternary if
#{}	crab claws
#{}	insert
**	constellation
**	double splat
**	binary splat
!~	doesn't match
&&=	assign unless falsy
`	`
`	`
&foo	proc operator
&:foo	symbol to proc operator
&:foo	pretzel colon
&:foo	salted pretzel operator
<<	append operator
<<	push
<<	shovel
<<	back shovel
<<	chevron
<<	exxon
<<	gazinta
<<	inhales
>>	forward shovel
^	carat
^	hat
^	exor
^	sharkfin
^	up
@	at sign
@	strudle
@	whirlpool
@	spiral
*args	stargs
/	slash
/	whack
/	solidus
\	backwhack
\	backslash
\	escape
&	pretzel
&	ampersand
_	unused variable
_	blank
_	trash
_	wild card
_	don't care
_	whatever
_	meh
_	undervar
_	skid
_	skim
_	underscore
_	disgraceful
!!!	mad hype
!!!	temporarily reverse the value of this bool to try something out, but it should stand out enough that I don't accidentally leave it in.
!!!	tribble
!!!	Tri-not
!!!	Yoda operator
'	sparks
"	rabbit ears
?	question mark
?	what
$	big money
$	dollar
%	double-oh-seven
%	mod
%	percent
&.	lonely operator
&.	safe navigation operator
<<~	squiggly heredoc
-@	unary operator
+@	unary operator
<<-	heredoc
&:-@	surprise
trailing comma	the Livingston-Gray comma
..	range
..	flip-flop
...	here be dragons
...	ellipsis
&&	and
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Sources

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• http://parley.rubyrogues.com/t/operator-nicknames/704/13
• rubygems/rubygems#123
• CocoaPods/Core#76
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Currency
• https://ruby-operators.herokuapp.com
• thoughtbot/guides#381
• https://github.com/bf4/learning/blob/gh-pages/ruby/operators.md
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1345843/what-does-the-question-mark-operator-mean-in-ruby
• http://symbolhound.com
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8476627/what-do-you-call-the-operator-in-ruby
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2259775/what-do-you-call-the-operator-in-ruby
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-released
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/664978/what-do-you-call-the-operator-in-ruby-when-its-used-for-appending-stuff
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2697024/what-are-and-in-ruby/2697187#2697187
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217088/what-does-mapname-mean-in-ruby#comment4137004_1217088
• http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html
• http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal-man/tonsila.html
• https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/713966036337303552

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• Operators from ekmett/lens Wiki

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