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something or other

something or other noun: something unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.

Noun

something or other (uncountable)

  1. Something unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.
    • The advert was on about something or other having to do with skin care, and looking your best, and emptying your wallet into their company's coffers, and so on.
    • John has a something-or-other in his side but he might have to be operated on.1965 February 26, Lou Sullivan, Diary

something or other meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

something or other in Hindi

something unspecified or indeterminate
कुछ न कुछ kuch na kuch

something or other in Tamil

எதாகிலும்

something or other in Urdu

something unspecified or indeterminate
کچھ نا کچھ kuch na kuch

something or other in Bengali

something unspecified or indeterminate
কিছু না কিছু kichu na kichu

Examples of something or other in a sentence

  • Many a voter, thinking he will have another chance to vote in a runoff, will use his general election vote to protest something or other — to send a message2000, Charles T. Canady, Proposals for Electoral College Reform:
  • Elizabeth said his name was Perry something or other, and he sang about temptation.2005, Bill Hunt, The Last Witness from a Dirt Road:

Forms of something or other

alternative formsomething or another
alternative formsomething or the other

Questions about something or other

What does something or other mean?
Something or other means something unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.
What is something or other in Hindi?
Something or other in Hindi is कुछ न कुछ (kuch na kuch). See Something or other meaning in Hindi.
How do you use something or other in a sentence?
Many a voter, thinking he will have another chance to vote in a runoff, will use his general election vote to protest something or other — to send a message
What part of speech is something or other?
Something or other is a noun.

Words near something or other in the dictionary

  1. something is up
  2. something like
  3. something like that
  4. something nasty in the woodshed
  5. something or another
  6. something or other
  7. something or the other
  8. something something
  9. something somethings
  10. something tells one
  11. something terrible

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: something or other (page history and authors); something or other (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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