who'll

[ hool ]

/ hul /

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contraction of who will or who shall: Who'll mind the store?

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usage note for who'll

See contraction.

Words nearby who'll

whole tone, whole-tone scale, whole wheat, wholism, wholistic, who'll, wholly, whom, whomever, whomp, whomso

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How to use who'll in a sentence

Because that minimum-wage hike was a project of the federal government, and that means that you-know-who was for it.
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After that, they agreed that LL would warn Foxx before striking him again.
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This version, one of the best yet, included hits from LL Cool J, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, Outkast, Drake, Kanye West, and more.
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“[A]ll the ideas concepts recommendations were Marks so he should simply own it outright,” she tweeted at the time.
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Meanwhile, they have devastated mental-health funding since you-know-who became president.
The Great GOP Mental-Health Hypocrisy|Michael Tomasky|September 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Joseph Towers died; a printer, bookseller, and afterwards a preacher with the title of LL.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
He remarked, very acutely, that Chaucer translates the F. bouton by the word knoppe; see ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
But the names, even in the F. text, are not exactly the same as in a former passage; see ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
I take iowell (with a bar through the ll) to be the usual (Northern) contraction for Iowellis, jewels; F. text, joiau, pl.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
As these lines are not in the original, the writer may have taken them from Chaucer's Hous of Fame, ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer

British Dictionary definitions for who'll

who'll

/ (huːl) /

contraction of

who will or who shall

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