"wouldn't've" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1936, Eugene Morehead Armfield, Where the Weak Grow Strong, page 115:",
          "text": "Anyway, my Daddy said if you wasn’t such a coward, trying to haze that boy with a big bunch of others, you wouldn’t’ve got shot in the first place […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Irwin Shaw, Mixed Company: Collected Short Stories of Irwin Shaw, page 276:",
          "text": "[…] if there had been a man around, taking hold of things, her father’s partner wouldn’t’ve been able to get away with most of the estate the way he did…",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Elias Canetti, Comedy of Vanity and Life-Terms, page 47:",
          "text": "I didn’t bring him here. If you wouldn’t have gone out, I wouldn’t have either. I’d have thrown him out right away. He wouldn’t’ve made it through the door.",
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          "text": "2006 October, Goff Morgan, \"We Wouldn't've Had To Do It\" (poem)."
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        "Contraction of would not have."
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        "(colloquial) Contraction of would not have."
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          "word": "wouldna"
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  "word": "wouldn't've"
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