Meanings
- USdatedmannerIntensely.
"The railway's begun The Mormons are cutting / And grading like fun."
c. 1868, James Crane, a song, in Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, page 2861 more example
"Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.
1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 16 - USdatedDefinitely not.
"Give me that gun!" "Like fun I will," Leigh snapped.
a. 1946, Raymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, editors, Adventures in time and space: an anthology of modern science-fiction stories, page 6071 more example
Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.
1927 October 7, “Chess Championship.”, in Ottawa CitizenSynonyms: like hell, like fudge, like fuck
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseDefinitely not.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbused ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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