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more like

  1. (chiefly UK) Used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
    • 2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places:
      "Load of old rubbish, more like. Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."
    • 2005, Stephen Fry, The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within:
      Syllabics? Silly bollocks, more like.
    • 2005, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:
      "Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.
    • 2007, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton:
      Nothing to do with his physical prowess. Bullshit and crap more like — very funny though.
  2. Used to introduce a pun or joke about some name.
    • 1992, J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, →ISBN, page 254:
      'Notion Club! More like the Commotion Club! Is there any news of the Commoters?'
    • 2023 March 10, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, “The Oscars' biggest controversies, scandals, and WTF moments”, in Entertainment Weekly[1], retrieved 2023-03-23:
      More like the Academy Awk-wards, am I right?

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