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Meaning

or what

(idiomatic) Or something else; allows for the existence of an unexpressed alternative to what was said.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not. John Chrysostom

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. Billie Joe Armstrong

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am. Peter Sellers

They censure my doing such a thing who neither consider my occasions of doing it, or what provocations I have had. Scottish Proverb

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