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seven shades

seven shades noun: a complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.

Noun

seven shades pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) A complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.
    • I'd have to be seven shades of stupid not to catch their drift.2008, Susan Bryant, Solitary Hearts, page 107
    • You can make that garbage predict anything you want, and that's exactly what those cretins have been doing for centuries—scaring seven shades of shit out of each other on the basis of the writings of a demented second-century surrealist.2008, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, The Gospel of the Second Coming, page 158

Questions about seven shades

What does seven shades mean?
Seven shades means a complete range; a whole lot; used with of and a noun or occasionally an adjective.
What part of speech is seven shades?
Seven shades is a noun.

Words near seven shades in the dictionary

  1. Seven Oaks
  2. seven out
  3. Seven Sages
  4. seven seals
  5. seven seas
  6. seven shades
  7. Seven Sisters
  8. Seven Sleepers' Day
  9. Seven Stars
  10. seven thousand
  11. seven virtues

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