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Approximately, especially alluding to a number, as in Four hundred or so guests are invited . [Late 1500s]

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She alleges that he and twenty-or-so named colleagues collectively abused “alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, Special-K, heroin.”

OK, I was twelve-or-so at the time—and a couple of hundred pounds slighter than I am now.

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tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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