and the like

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Etymology

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From the 16th century. Replaced earlier and other like.

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and the like

  1. (idiomatic, informal) And other similar items; et cetera.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:
      And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace [...] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 10:
      Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

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