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fill in the blanks

fill in the blanks is the alternative form of fill in the blank.

fill in the blanks is the plural of fill in the blank.

Meaning of fill in the blank

Noun

fill in the blank (plural fill in the blanks)

  1. A language exercise in which one or more words are replaced with a blank line and the reader is tasked with supplying a valid replacement.
    • The test consisted of fill-in-the-blank sentences.
    Synonyms:
    gap fill
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) A placeholder allowing for any of a variety of possible answers or a single elicited answer.
    • It was important that she make something memorable. She wanted to be complimented. She wanted people to go home after the party and say, “Wasn't Dorothy's — fill in the blank — amazing?"2011, Debra Ginsberg, The Neighbors Are Watching: A Novel, page 55

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Forms of fill in the blanks

Noun
pluralfill in the blanks
Verb
third-person singular presentfills in the blanks
present participlefilling in the blanks
past participlefilled in the blanks
pastfilled in the blanks

Questions about fill in the blanks

What is fill in the blanks the alternative form of?
Fill in the blanks is the alternative form of fill in the blank.

Words near fill in the blanks in the dictionary

  1. fill and fly
  2. fill away
  3. fill dirt
  4. fill in
  5. fill in the blank
  6. fill in the blanks
  7. fill kill
  8. fill light
  9. fill line
  10. fill lines
  11. fill music

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fill in the blanks (page history and authors); fill in the blank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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