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Or so   /ɔr soʊ/   Listen
Or so

adverb
1.
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.  Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, roughly, some.  "In just about a minute" , "He's about 30 years old" , "I've had about all I can stand" , "We meet about once a month" , "Some forty people came" , "Weighs around a hundred pounds" , "Roughly $3,000" , "Holds 3 gallons, more or less" , "20 or so people were at the party"






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"Or so" Quotes from Famous Books



... it but Sandy Liston, who, after furious resistance, was blubbering with explosive but short-lived violence? Having done it, he was the first to draw everybody's attention to the phenomenon; and affecting to consider it a purely physical attack, like a coup de soleil, or so on, he proceeded instantly to Drysel's for ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade

... what. We'll go to fifty thousand dollars or so on a cleanup job, and you use that. Leave the world to the ...
— Prologue to an Analogue • Leigh Richmond

... guess that cap will stay put. You and the hoss get out of here, Molly. Go along the trail a couple of hundred yards or so. G'on. Get a move on. I'll be with you in a minute. Better leave ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... them with an interest that was oblivious to everything else. As he turned them over and over and tried to fit them together they seemed to form at least a part of what had once been a hollow globe of very thin glass, perhaps a quarter of an inch or so in diameter. ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve

... An hour or so later there came a knock on the door of the bank—a back door—and Dale opened it to admit Morley—the big man who had drawn a pistol on Sanderson when he had tried to take Barney Owen out of ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer


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