or whatever

A flippant way of indicating something else similar to what was mentioned. Yeah, I'm sure there will be security or whatever there, but it should still be easy enough to sneak in some booze. There are cool clubs and bars or whatever in the main cities, but if you want to see the really interesting stuff, you need to get out into the countryside.

whatever

interjection Used in conversation to express one's dismissiveness, disinterest, or annoyance. A: "What do you want for dinner?" B: "Whatever, I don't care. I'm not even hungry." A: "Jeff said his dog got sick, that's why he never showed." B: "Really? Well, whatever, I'm over it."

or whatever

Whatnot, or any other thing that might be mentioned, as in They've stocked wine, beer, soda, or whatever, or You can stay or leave, or whatever. [Early 1900s]

or whatˈever

(spoken) or something of a similar type: It’s the same in any situation: in a prison, hospital or whatever.

whatever

mod. I don’t care; it doesn’t matter which choice; whatever you want. Q: I have chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, kiwi, and lime. Which do you want? A: Oh, whatever.

whatever

In any case; anything goes; as you wish. One of the most recent additions to clichédom, this adverb is used very loosely. David Rosenfelt has it in a character’s conversation with a waitress: “‘. . . I can remember a time when the bananas and walnuts would have been inside the pancakes.’ ‘Whatever,’ she says, demonstrating a disregard for cultural history. ‘You want coffee?’ ‘Not until after the Olympics,’ I say. ‘Whatever.’” (Bury the Lead, 2004). Uttering “whatever” can be irksome, and even incendiary, as well as nonchalant. A New Yorker piece by Nick Paumgarten (July 11 and 18, 2005) reports that actor Russell Crowe, who assaulted a hotel clerk for failing to help him place a telephone call to Australia, did so after the clerk, responding to a threat, replied “Whatever.” The 1995 film Clueless, about Beverly Hills teenagers of the 1990s, popularized the “whatever” gesture, made with holding up the thumb and forefinger of both hands to form the letter W. Perhaps the most chilling use of the word came at the court martial of Private First Class Lynndie R. England, who told the judge that when pressed to join in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, she responded “OK. Whatever” (quoted by James Carroll, Boston Globe, May 10, 2005). See also the quotation under twenty-four/seven.

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References in classic literature ?

He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes, --leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest, --so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does.

View in context

If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it -- and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.

View in context

The mind accepts whatever it sees or whatever pictures you compose for it.

Not book-learned

Those selling oil could convert those dollars back to euros or Japanese yen or whatever their hearts desired, and likewise could convert euros obtained through sales on an Iranian bourse back into dollars, if they wished."

End of the petro-dollar? Is Tehran about to deploy an economic weapon potentially more deadly than a nuclear bomb?

In our daily lives every day brings problems, whether it is with our children, our boss, the traffic or whatever. When things happen against our wishes, we do not like it and start getting stressed.

Theme for the day

It's a dumbing down serum; it's not even escape anymore, it almost seems like it's designed to numb people and render their brains incapable of processing anything besides how to write down an 800 number so you can call American Idol Baby and vote for the best-singing three-year-old or whatever. It's beyond anything I could have imagined.

"I am a poet too": in Sarah Jones's latest play, first-generation immigrants at a poetry reading take on racism and xenophobia in the era of homeland security

You ever had that kind of experience where you are in that zone or whatever, you just do it til you're finished, then you go to bed?

Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes

Whereas once there was neo-geo, neo-expressionism, or whatever else doing battle, the only thing antagonistic to painting now is everything outside it, if the curators who do Documenta or the Venice Biennale are any kind of gauge.

Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron. ('80s Then)

"It has long been the law that `[n]o tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.'"

Texas lawmakers wrangle over content of legislative prayers. (People & Events)

I like being really involved with what's going on--that way, when you're hurt or whatever, you can still be involved with skating.

Tony Manfre: "you have to use your imagination". (Heads_Manfre)

Then, like so many ordinary gay people discover when they come out to their loved ones and coworkers, the shock, or whatever you want to call it, is easier to process.

Rallying around Rosie. (notes from a blond)

WHATEVER they want or whatever they're into, at Virgin Megastores this Christmas we've done all the hardwork for you and found the best gifts for the family.

WHAT EVER TURNS YOU ON THIS CHRISTMAS..YOU'LL FIND IT AT VIRGIN MEGASTORES: WHATEVER THEY WANT -WE'VE GOT IT

So if you need to retrieve something that's been lost due to an unintentional shutdown for what Windows calls an "illegal operation" or a "general protection fault" or a power-outage, or whatever, GoBack can restore your system to status quo ante.

Roxio's Flagship CD Software Is Not Heady For Prime Time

All along the route, she talked about the portents of when Saturn and Jupiter were in the ascendant up Uranus or whatever it was.