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and change en · X

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, informal) And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
    • It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
    • She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human. 2010, Robert Charles Wilson, Spin - Volume 1, →ISBN:
    • How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110).
    • "A Million and 1 Questions" by Jay Z. This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change
    • “Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning." 2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, →ISBN, page 181:
    • Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth. 2013, Tony Pypka, Raptor, →ISBN, page 180:
    • Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky. 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 179:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see and, change.

Relateds

spare change

Synonyms

-some · -odd

Translations (19)

pl pi razy drzwi (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · de und ein paar Gequetschte (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fr et des poussières (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · ru с небольши́м (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · es y pico (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fi reilut (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fr et des brouettes (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · pt e uns quebrados (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fr et des (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · it e rotti (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · pl z hakiem (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · ru с ли́шним (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · ru с копе́йками (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · pl z groszami (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fi ja vähän yli (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · it e passa (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fr et des broquilles (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · pl z ogonkiem (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number) · fi ja risat (and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number)