in any shape or form

Alternative form of in any way, shape, or form

Meanings

adverbin any shape or form (comparative more in any shape or form, superlative most in any shape or form)

comparative more in any shape or form · superlative most in any shape or form

  1. alternativeAlternative form of in any way, shape, or form

    They damn without hope of redemption alcoholic liquor in any shape or form from a yeastful brewage of heather tops to the spirituous spindrift distilled from grain and barley.

    1987, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness - Volume 54, page 493
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    Jem’s head at times was transparent: he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn’t afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice.

    1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
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