or other INFORMAL
used when you cannot or do not want to be exact about the information you are giving:
The event was held in some park or other.
We'll find someone or other to help us.

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something or other
something whose exact nature you do not know or have forgotten.
He's a professor of something or other and now he's living in China.

Related vocabulary: somehow or other

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something or other
one thing or another
My friend said something or other about his car but I am not sure exactly what he meant.

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or other
adv.
■ Used to emphasize indefinite words or phrases beginning with "some" (as "someone", "something", "somewhere", "somehow", "sometime").
Somehow or other, Linda managed to get to the show on time.
I'll think of something or other for the program.
She found a beautiful cup and saucer somewhere or other.
I'll get around to cleaning the closets sometime or other.
Someone or other will take the letters to the post office.

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