'll
a contraction of will:
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'll
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a contraction of will:
I'll answer the phone. He'll pay the check. What'll we do?
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contraction of till 1 (used when the preceding word ends in t ).
Wait'll your father comes home!
LL
2
American
Or
L.L.
ll.
3
American
abbreviation
l.l.
4
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abbreviation
l.l.
5
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abbreviation
LL
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abbreviation
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Late Latin
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Low Latin
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Lord Lieutenant
ll.
2
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abbreviation
Usage
See contraction.
Etymology
Origin of l.l.
From Latin locō laudātō
Example Sentences
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"We do get this quite regularly - as soon as we have a few hours of rain, you can guarantee we 'll have a lake down here."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
“I think to say he’s close is accurate and I ’ll just leave it at that,” Budenholzer said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
“For the people that came out ... hopefully we ‘ll continue to get more of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
“Well, wish for two hundred pounds, then; that ‘ll just do it.”
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2014
After a few moments of amicable silence, Bailey works up the nerve to ask a question, one he’s not sure he ’ll be comfortable asking once they meet back up with Widget.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
He eventually dressed the rap icons Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J. His story deserves more ink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
He made multiple installments of “1, 2, 3, 4” by LL Cool J, in which Williams dressed in the eccentric style of former NFL quarterback Cam Newton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The ceremony was hosted by a largely off-screen LL Cool J who handed out only seven awards during the telecast.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The unreleased songs – such as “Truth on Youth,” which appears to be a rap duet between Jackson and LL Cool J – will not be publicly released.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
We became curious about the real Children’s Crusade, so O’Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
The word briefs is used in the same sense by the old French writers, and in Laȝamon we meet with some lines nearly corresponding with the present; see ll. 6669-6678.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
The Collation therefore is: 4 ll. unnumbered, A to Mm, all fours.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
When erþ is in erþe, þe rof is on þe chynne; Þan schullen an hundred wormes wroten on þe skin. ll. 63-64. v.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
The play is noted for the two Carthaginian renderings of the soliloquy of Hanno, ll. 930-9, and ll. 940-9.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
For instances, see Grundtvig, l.l., and under the closely related Lindormen, ii.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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