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something or the other

something or the other is the alternative form of something or other.

Meaning of something or other

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.

Questions about something or the other

What is something or the other the alternative form of?
Something or the other is the alternative form of something or other.

Words near something or the other in the dictionary

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

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