Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of to the effect.
Reserve the right to walk away at any time – or include a provision to that effect.
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His [Monty Tipton’s] saucy badinage is often as clever as it is outrageous: I believe it is he who congratulatingly greets one aerobicized woman by saying, “Your posterior is so skinny, I mistook it for Jodie Foster’s chin!” or words to that effect.
1996 March 22, Tim Appelo, “‘It’s My Party’ balances humor, AIDS”, in The Oregonian, Portland, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 5
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