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all lives matter

all lives matter phrase: a response to "black lives matter" (the phrase, its political and social movement), suggesting that African-American people should not be singled out for special attention.

Phrase

all lives matter

  1. (US, offensive, often) A response to "black lives matter" (the phrase, its political and social movement), suggesting that African-American people should not be singled out for special attention.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, lives, matter.

Origin of all lives matter

Coined in reaction to the slogan black lives matter.

Questions about all lives matter

What does all lives matter mean?
All lives matter means a response to "black lives matter" (the phrase, its political and social movement), suggesting that African-American people should not be singled out for special attention.
What part of speech is all lives matter?
All lives matter is a phrase.

Words near all lives matter in the dictionary

  1. all it's cracked up to be
  2. all jokes aside
  3. all joking aside
  4. all kidding aside
  5. all kinds of
  6. all lives matter
  7. all manner of
  8. all mops and brooms
  9. all motion and no meat
  10. all mouth and no trousers
  11. all mouth and trousers

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