or other
One besides the one mentioned. This phrase is used to emphasize indefinite words beginning with some, such as someone, somehow, sometime, somewhere. For example, Someone or other will be taking tickets at the door, or I can't remember where I put the lawn rake, but it's somewhere or other in the garage, or Somehow or other be found one that matched. [c. 1600]
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How to use or other in a sentence
His name was Lefty something-or-other, and he was about the sneakiest stool the department had.
Though this was fair, and that was something else, and a third was so-and-so, yet none of them was Mary Something-or-other.
A Country Gentleman and his Family | Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantHer mother had lived abroad for the past five years, and was now the Princess Somebody-or-other.
Peggy Stewart at School | Gabrielle E. JacksonVerny, you know when you told me to salt something-or-other, I thought you meant chowder; so I put in as much as I felt it needed.
Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp | Lillian Elizabeth RoyHow could he accept something-or-other from such a churl accompanied by a threat?
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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