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Idiomatic Or something else; allows for the existence of an unexpressed alternative to what was said.
- How should he know or guess or what?1926, Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, page 68:
- Do they check you at the door or what?" Michael laughed.1982, Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, page 146:
3 more examples
- Rahneesh: Hey, Greggie, what about those new clothes, huh? You gonna cough up some new duds or what?2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 30:
- [S]he asked me, and like you, I didn't know if that was like having heart failure or what.2006, V.C. Andrews, Broken Flower, page 141:
- I don't know if she was joking or what, but I joked back with her anyway. […]. Did I take her back to her hotel room and drop her off or what?2007, Omar Tyree, What They Want: A Novel, page 95: