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Definition of odds and ends
odds and ends 
noun - plural
- miscellaneous things.
I need to take care of a few odds and ends then I'm coming home.
- See more words with the same meaning: unspecified item(s), 'stuff', 'thing(s)'.
Last edited on Feb 01 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'unspecified item(s), 'stuff', 'thing(s)'': | |
| Definitions include: stuff. | |
| Definitions include: an item. Synonymous with "thing" or "thingy." | |
| Definitions include: "shit". | |
| Definitions include: an attractive person. | |
| Definitions include: tattoo. | |
| Definitions include: replacement name for an object whose name one doesn't know, has forgotten, can't recall at the moment, or can't be bothered to name. | |
| Definitions include: swag received from a dentist's office. | |
| Definitions include: To Hawaiians, used to describe people/places/objects. | |
| Definitions include: colloquial pronunciation of fool. | |
| Definitions include: miscellaneous things, typically given away free. | |
| Definitions include: replacement name for an object whose name one doesn't know or has forgotten. | |
| Definitions include: assorted things. | |
| Definitions include: see do-hickey. | |
| Definitions include: thing. | |
| Definitions include: male genitalia. | |
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Other terms relating to 'and': | |
| Definitions include: Assault and Battery | |
| Definitions include: Rain. | |
| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: Without substance, All talk and no action | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
Other terms relating to 'end': | |
| Definitions include: some location extremely far away. | |
| Definitions include: extremely aggravated. | |
| Definitions include: unable to tolerate any more. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: a foolish person. | |
| Definitions include: the functional end, especially of a tool. | |
| Definitions include: of an activity, an insurmountable obstacle. | |
| Definitions include: money. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "end of business", i.e. the end of the business day. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "End of Day." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "end of file". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "end of message". | |
| Definitions include: extremely ugly | |
| Definitions include: to go crazy. | |
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