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1. 1

   Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of…

   Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.

   • He ate the whole fish, bones and all.
   • Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.
   • The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons.
2. 2

   Used to suggest certain unstated relevant implications of what has been stated.

   • What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.
3. 3

   Used to add emphasis.

   • He starts yelling and we come running to help, but a fat load of thanks we get and all!
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   1. 4

      As well

      As well; in addition.

      • I'll have some of the red ones, some green ones, and them yellow ones and all.
      • “You leave my son alone!” The woman turned her head slowly towards him. When her eyes met his, she said, “Gilbert, you are forgetting something. Frank is my son and all.”

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