OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 23809

quote unquote

/kwəʊ̯t ʌn.kwəʊ̯t/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
entre comillas
Emphasizes the following (or sometimes preceding) word or phrase for irony, or marks it as not the normal sense of the term. Used almost exclusively in spoken language. In written language, quotation marks would be used instead.
Maybe you should ask your quote unquote friend what happened to the money.
`We're a young quote-unquote club. [...] In time, it will become a club.'
Phrases
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