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so-and-so

A name used to take the place of an epithet.
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That miserable so-and-so messed up my work!.

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Submitted on September 01, 2009

Additional definitions for 'so-and-so':

so-and-soA placeholder name, used when a name is not known; a generic name.
so-and-soAnything generic.
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