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like
- as UK, 1886
A conventional C16 usage that is now considered poor or unconventional English. - [T]he Saudis are not a demonstrating kind of people. They don’t go out onto the streets like they do in Egypt and Jordan. — The Guardian, 25 March 2003
- used for reducing the specificity, precision or certainty of what is being said, eg “could you like help me?” US, 1950
In the wake of disaster, use of “like” all but disappears. Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg first observed this after shootings at a San Diego high school in March 2001, and language columnist Jan Freeman of the Boston Globe made the same observation after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. There is no need for distance in certain situations. - Know what Louie says about Be-bop? Like-anybody can play mistakes; it’s what Louie says, so it must be like-true; right, doll? — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 261, 1952
- “Buster,” said Red gratefully, “your timing was like the end, ya know?” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 49, 1955
- The word “like” is a staple of the speech. It is used as a form of punctuation, or it may be used as a compliment, a ploy, and even as a substitution for completing a thought. — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 149, 1957
- For example, the hippies in his circle peppered all their choppy, laconic sentences with the word “like,” as though they lived in a world not of events but of similitudes, as though there was no reality for them but reminiscence. — Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, p. 125, 1961
- Yeah, man, like I’m the one. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 134, 1965
- “Murray the K–well, you know,” says Susan, “like, he’s what’s happening.” — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 46, 1965
- [T]he deuces-wild use of the word “like” (as in “like, man, you ain’t gonna make it with that chick so like you’d best split”) is all ghetto idiom. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 111, 1967
- [I]t hit me kind of hard. Like it dispelled my dominant illusion. (We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality. It takes a certain commitment to say something is. Inserting “like” gives you a bit more running room.) — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, pp. 101–102, 1968
- It is all like, like, like ... “like help,” as the Californian said when he was drowning. They all use “like” in a way that sets my teeth on edge. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 54, 1968
- There were a few people like from the Mime Troupe who were living in a communal house. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 100, 1968
- As she put it (before I forbade her ever again to say like, and man, and swinger, and crazy, and a groove): “It was, like ethics.” — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 175, 1969
- They were also likely to say “like” at odd spaces in conversation. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 61, 1987
- Uttering “like” before any other noun or verb may have sought to give dopers time to think, or express some cosmic simile, but it soon became a tedious habit that stuck to everyone’s speech patterns. — Sean Hutchinson, Cry Out Loud, p. 177, 1988
- I think you are, like, the funniest person I know. — Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, 1997
- Well, me and a buddy go to the video arcade in town and, like, they don’t speak English right. — Austin Powers, 1997
- You’ve worn that shirt for, like, three days in a row, man! — American Pie, 1999
- She said both of her parents were totally embarrassing, but her dad was like, way beyond? — American Beauty, 1999
- habitually used in informal speech as inconsequential ornamentation US, 1982
- Uttering “like” before any other noun or verb may have sought to give dopers time to think, or express some cosmic simile, but it soon became a tedious habit that stuck to everyone’s speech patterns. — Sean Hutchinson, Cry Out Loud, p. 177, 1988
- They, like, go shopping, and sometimes they, like, take things and they, like, think it’s cool. — The Guardian, p. 23, 10 April 2002
- used as an introduction to a gesture or expression US
- Great movie. Amazing special effects. It was like ... (Strike a taken-aback facial expression) [...] I was so happy, I was like ... (Jump and clap hands.) — Maggie Balistreri, The Evasion-English Dictionary, p. 53, 2003
▶ be like
used for indicating a quotation, or a paraphrase of what was said, or an interpretation of what was said, or a projection of what was thought but not said US, 1982- I was like, naw man, I got a son on the way. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- — American Speech, pp. 215–227, Fall 1990: “I’m like, ‘Say what?!’: A new quotative in American oral narrative”
- This weekend he called me up and he’s all, “Where were you today?” and I’m like, “I’m at my grandmother’s house.” — Clueless, 1995
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, April 1995
- I got stoned and he comes home and he’s like, “This apartment smells like pot all the time.” And I’m like, “Yeah, ’cause I always smoking it.” So then he’s like, “I want that smell out of this house.” And then he’s like, “No, actually, I want you out of this house.” — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 9, 2000
- And maybe one night me and Lunchbox’ll be macking some bitch, and she’ll be like, “Oooo! I want to suck youse guys’s dicks off. What’s your names?” And I’ll be like, “Jay and Silent Bob.” — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 21, 2001
- This is so not a good thing. I’m like–what? — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 107, 2002
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