Is there a short-hand to return an arbitrary exit code from shell

Question

The commands true and false do nothing but return 0 and 1 respectively. I am looking for a similar command to do nothing but return an arbitrary exit code for testing purposes.

With that, I could

ssh remote return 27; echo $?

Which does not work because

bash: line 0: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script

Answer 1

Actually, just as I write out the question, the obvious solution came to my mind but maybe someone else can use it one day:

ssh remote exit 27; echo "$?"

works as desired...!