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damn all

damn all pronoun: nothing (not any thing: no thing).

Pronoun

damn all

  1. (informal, vulgar) Nothing (not any thing: no thing).
    • "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298
    • And that's just to let you see we don't spend all our time sitting round on our arses doing damn all.1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 112

Questions about damn all

What does damn all mean?
Damn all means nothing (not any thing: no thing).
What part of speech is damn all?
Damn all is a pronoun.

Words near damn all in the dictionary

  1. dammit to hell
  2. dammitall
  3. dammits
  4. dammy
  5. damn
  6. damn all
  7. damn and blast
  8. damn by association
  9. damn it
  10. damn my eyes
  11. damn right

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