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gone cases

gone cases is the plural of gone case.

Meaning of gone case

Noun

gone case (plural gone cases)

  1. (India, Singapore, idiomatic) Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing.
    • gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).1991 August 9, Valerie Tan, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3, page 19
    Synonyms:
    lost cause

Questions about gone cases

What is gone cases the plural of?
Gone cases is the plural of gone case.

Words near gone cases in the dictionary

  1. gone by the name of
  2. gone by the wayside
  3. gone bye-bye
  4. gone cahoots
  5. gone case
  6. gone cases
  7. gone chapter 11
  8. gone cheap
  9. gone commando
  10. gone coon
  11. gone coons

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