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or something

Meaning

or something

(idiomatic) Or something like that. Used to indicate the possibility that previously mentioned word may not be exactly correct in its applicability.
I think she's a lawyer or something.
What are you doing?! Are you trying to kill us or something?
It's not like I hate parks or something; I just think it's too cold outside today.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. Arthur Hugh Clough

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard Feynman

All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography. Martha Graham

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. Alan Greenspan

No money is taken for just looking at somebody or something. Russian Proverb

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