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quote-unquote

quote-unquote is the alternative form of quote unquote.

Meaning of quote unquote

Adjective

quote unquote (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Emphasizes the following (or sometimes preceding) word or phrase for irony, or marks it as not the normal sense of the term.
    • Maybe you should ask your quote unquote friend what happened to the money.
    Synonyms:
    so-called, supposed

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Questions about quote-unquote

What is quote-unquote the alternative form of?
Quote-unquote is the alternative form of quote unquote.

Words near quote-unquote in the dictionary

  1. quote-seeker
  2. quote-tweet
  3. quote-tweeted
  4. quote-tweeting
  5. quote-tweets
  6. quote-unquote
  7. quoteable
  8. quotebook
  9. quotebooks
  10. quoted
  11. quotedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quote-unquote (page history and authors); quote unquote (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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