"alot" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Teaching Secondary English, ed. Daniel Sheridan. [in a tenth-grade student's paper]",
          "text": "There was alot of sex discrimination in the 60’s. For one thing there was no sports for girls and in alot of schools the female teachers were not allowed to get married or they could be fired. http://print.google.com/print?id=ejtdcf-taQkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&sig=t0Sp87KqxsH-UGYklzl72NMUz1Q"
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          "ref": "2003, Matt Janacone, Three by the Sea:",
          "text": "It was alot of lumber, alot of condos, and Joe did not know alot about either of them, only that it was alot of money; he hated to throw his money into something he did not know alot about.",
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          "text": "She talked about death: “My philosophy on life is it could be alot better. Like I would’ve never gotten into this mess if I wouldn’t have tried to commit suicide. Actually I was just trying to make myself sick. But then again it could be alot worse! …”"
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        "(nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a lot"
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