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- noun Alternative spelling of
whatnot .
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Examples
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His English still maintained a Cyrillic flavor, and his speech was dotted with anachronistic Old World touches such as the use of “what-not” when peers would say “stuff like that.”
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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I guess the children that are not keeping up in school are the ones you see in Merida selling flowers or what-not.
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Mpeg-VCR is awesome for clipping out commercials or what-not because you can customize a clip without re-encoding.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Movie Editing Software Recommendation 2009
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She started the snark with Levi, who's just a dumb kid ... and she escalated it, and now that it's causing her damage, suddenly she's saying he's "part of the family" or what-not.
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His English still maintained a Cyrillic flavor, and his speech was dotted with anachronistic Old World touches such as the use of “what-not” when peers would say “stuff like that.”
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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We're not utilizing space appropriately, and every single high school wants a state-of-the-art gym, theater, computer lab and what-not, and we just don't have the resources to provide that.'
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I guess the children that are not keeping up in school are the ones you see in Merida selling flowers or what-not.
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I guess the children that are not keeping up in school are the ones you see in Merida selling flowers or what-not.
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"They began medicines and IVs and what-not," he says.
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A woman opened a what-not shop in the same local mall as the collectibles store Dean started.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations 2010
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