may've in English

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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "may've",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jan Needle, The spithead nymph, page 139",
          "text": "\"He may've hid?\" asked Bentley. The boatswain nodded an affirmative. \"He may've, sir. But we looked and searched a bit, and we found nothing. We flushed a few more drunken buggers out for locking up, but no Black Bob. I'm sorry, sir, but I wouldn't be surprised...\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "may have"
      ],
      "id": "en-may've-en-contraction--RdrgmlL",
      "links": [
        [
          "may",
          "may"
        ],
        [
          "have",
          "have"
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪv/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Maeve"
    }
  ],
  "word": "may've"
}

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      "expansion": "may've",
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        "English contractions",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪv",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪv/1 syllable"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2004, Jan Needle, The spithead nymph, page 139",
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    {
      "ipa": "/meɪv/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪv"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Maeve"
    }
  ],
  "word": "may've"
}

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"may've" meaning in English

Contraction