or something
idiomatic phrase
informal
—used to suggest another name, choice, etc., that is not specified
The man wearing the badge must be a guard or something.
Can I get you a glass of wine or something?
… Art's yard was amazing. Like a park or something, with all kinds of flowers and plants—the kind you only see at the arboretum.—
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But the perspective that anxiety is bad or something to get rid of exacerbates anxiety, causing reactions like fighting, ignoring or trying to stampede over it.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Stay at Tensing Pen or Rockhouse Hotel & Spa for the raw beauty of the rocky shoreline, or something more classically Caribbean like Beaches Negril for a family-friendly stay along a white-sand beach.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
Someone—or something—had chewed off Loki’s head and neck, then buried it under some nearby pine needles.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025
As actual spirits, released from their corporeal form, or visions conjured up by the eyes or minds of those who see them—or something else?
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
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Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Stay at Tensing Pen or Rockhouse Hotel & Spa for the raw beauty of the rocky shoreline, or something more classically Caribbean like Beaches Negril for a family-friendly stay along a white-sand beach.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
Someone—or something—had chewed off Loki’s head and neck, then buried it under some nearby pine needles.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025
As actual spirits, released from their corporeal form, or visions conjured up by the eyes or minds of those who see them—or something else?
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
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“Or something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20something. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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