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Definition

Or something else; allows for the existence of an unexpressed alternative to what was said.

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In Context

  • "How should he know or guess or what?"
  • "Do they check you at the door or what?" Michael laughed."
  • "[S]he asked me, and like you, I didn't know if that was like having heart failure or what."
  • "I don't know if she was joking or what, but I joked back with her anyway. […]. Did I take her back to her hotel room and drop her off or what?"
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Related Idioms

k

knock out of the box

To cause something to be replaced by something else.

 p

pale in comparison

To appear small or unimportant in relation to something else.

 b

buy a dog and bark oneself

To do something that one has hired someone else to do.

 s

see which way the cat jumps

To delay taking action based on the outcome of something else.

 o

otherwise engaged

busy doing something else

 s

stepping stone

Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else.
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