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like fun

like fun prepositional phrase: intensely.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (US, dated) Intensely.
    • "Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 16
    • "The railway's begun The Mormons are cutting / And grading like fun."c. 1868, James Crane, a song, in Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, page 286
    Synonyms:
    like hell, like fuck
  2. (US, dated) Definitely not.
    • Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.1927 October 7, “Chess Championship.”, in Ottawa Citizen
    • "Give me that gun!" "Like fun I will," Leigh snapped.a. 1946, Raymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, editors, Adventures in time and space: an anthology of modern science-fiction stories, page 607

Synonyms of like fun

Questions about like fun

What does like fun mean?
Like fun means intensely.
What part of speech is like fun?
Like fun is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like fun in the dictionary

  1. like fits
  2. like flies on a rib roast
  3. like flies on pie
  4. like fuck
  5. like fudge
  6. like fun
  7. like fury
  8. like gangbusters
  9. like grease through a goose
  10. like grim death
  11. like heck

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