something else

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Noun

something else (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Something exceptional, out of the ordinary, unusual.
    My mother's cooking is something else!
    • 2010, Mary Ann Hutchison, Moochi’s Mariachis, Pen & Publish, →ISBN, page 42:
      Before Ladybug could answer, Chico said, “Man, you’re something else. Do you really think that tall and skinny is good looking? […] ”
  2. (informal) A person or thing that is outstandingly bad.
    You mean to tell me you let those kids walk all the way home? At night in the rain? Man, you're really something else.
  3. Another unspecified item, perhaps not yet known or decided upon.
    • 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 61:
      It's a bracket for a camera at the moment, but it could be turned into a bracket for something else.

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