"something something" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: something somethings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} something something (plural something somethings)
  1. Alternative form of something-something Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: something-something
    Sense id: en-something_something-en-noun-23VrIfKo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1948, Jocelyn Pereira, A Distant Drum",
          "text": "The bloody something somethings.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1962, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine - Volume 2, page 30",
          "text": "'You big blanks,' Maidie yelled defiantly. 'You something somethings. I wasn't doing anything.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Janice Sims, Kim Louise, Natalie Dunbar, Can I Get an Amen Again, page 503",
          "text": "Gaby and Marcus whispered sweet something somethings in each other's ear, and kissed throughout the song.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Toriano Porter, The Pride of Park Avenue, page 106",
          "text": "Well, DeDe, we kinda had a um — a um — you know. . . a little something something going on on the side.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Makayla Messam, Life After Death, page 8",
          "text": "He could have at least broke a sister off a little something something.",
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          "ref": "2011, Lurea C. McFadden, Men Don't Leave: (they Get Put Out)",
          "text": "I don't really pay rent, but I always leave a little 'something something' on Fridays just to let her know I care.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Shelia M. Goss, The Joneses, page 77",
          "text": "No need to get dressed. Since I'm here, we can do a little something something.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Yvonne \"YC\" Coates, It Was Written All Over Their Faces: Ask Y, She Cried Uncle",
          "text": "Thank you to Cody Anderson who gave me the opportunity to do my own talk radio program. I had tried a little something something a few years earlier, and I also co-hosted the Matah Program along with Anthony Phillips and Norm Bond, before Cody gave me the green light to do my own thing.",
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          "ref": "2014, Tia Ramirez, Mad Love: A Short Story, page 35",
          "text": "He wanted me to go so we could spend some downtime with each other, instead of trying to at school, but I told him I couldn't because I had a test to study for. Of course I was lying. I wanted to surprise him with a little something something.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, C.K. Carr, Something Worth Having, page 12",
          "text": "\"Yeah, well. That's the first time I've crossed a border with someone who might not be legally allowed to enter the country and the first time I did so not knowing if my travel companion had maybe packed a little something something in his bags.",
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          "ref": "1948, Jocelyn Pereira, A Distant Drum",
          "text": "The bloody something somethings.",
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          "ref": "1962, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine - Volume 2, page 30",
          "text": "'You big blanks,' Maidie yelled defiantly. 'You something somethings. I wasn't doing anything.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Janice Sims, Kim Louise, Natalie Dunbar, Can I Get an Amen Again, page 503",
          "text": "Gaby and Marcus whispered sweet something somethings in each other's ear, and kissed throughout the song.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Toriano Porter, The Pride of Park Avenue, page 106",
          "text": "Well, DeDe, we kinda had a um — a um — you know. . . a little something something going on on the side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Makayla Messam, Life After Death, page 8",
          "text": "He could have at least broke a sister off a little something something.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lurea C. McFadden, Men Don't Leave: (they Get Put Out)",
          "text": "I don't really pay rent, but I always leave a little 'something something' on Fridays just to let her know I care.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Shelia M. Goss, The Joneses, page 77",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2014, Yvonne \"YC\" Coates, It Was Written All Over Their Faces: Ask Y, She Cried Uncle",
          "text": "Thank you to Cody Anderson who gave me the opportunity to do my own talk radio program. I had tried a little something something a few years earlier, and I also co-hosted the Matah Program along with Anthony Phillips and Norm Bond, before Cody gave me the green light to do my own thing.",
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          "text": "He wanted me to go so we could spend some downtime with each other, instead of trying to at school, but I told him I couldn't because I had a test to study for. Of course I was lying. I wanted to surprise him with a little something something.",
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