unquote

1. Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.

   And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the quote Scene of the Crime unquote.

   1967, Arlo Guthrie, “Alice's Restaurant Massacree”, in Alice's Restaurant

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   Telegram for the Dover Boys, Messrs. Tom, Dick and Larry, care of Wayward Tavern, Upper Bottleneck, New York, sirs, quote, HEEEELP!, unquote, signed Dora. 35 cents collect.

   1942, “The Dover Boys at Pimento University” (1:53 from the start), in Chuck Jones, director, Merrie Melodies, spoken by Telegram Boy

   Mackerras himself wrote, and I quote: "He is a prostitute, whose liaisons with perverts and sodomites were commonplace in his brief and forgettable career at Caius. Lock up the silverware." Unquote.

   2012, Jim Broadbent as Vyvyan Ayrs, Cloud Atlas, circa 1:28:04

   Synonyms: end quote, end of quote · Antonyms: quote

present singular third person unquotes · participle present unquoting · participle past unquoted · past unquoted

1. transitivecomputingTo convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form.