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the like

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Noun1.the like - a similar kind; "dogs, foxes, and the like", "we don't want the likes of you around here"
like, the likes of
kind, sort, form, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
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Wid that I giv'd her a big wink jist to say, "lit Sir Pathrick alone for the likes o' them thricks," and thin I wint aisy to work, and you'd have died wid the divarsion to behould how cliverly I slipped my right arm betwane the back o' the sofy, and the back of her leddyship, and there, sure enough, I found a swate little flipper all a waiting to say, "the tip o' the mornin' to ye, Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
But like want of reasonableness, a love for having the last word, want of humour and the like, politics were in her opinion a mannish attribute to be tolerated, and Gladstone was the name of the something which makes all our sex such queer characters.
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
No white man's stand for a nigger ownin' the likes of you, an' here's one white man that ain't goin' to stand for it.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
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