Language: en
Meaning: ; (informal,idiomatic)And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.1993, Dana Stabenow,A Fatal Thaw,→ISBN, page179:Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet andchange, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.2010, Robert Charles Wilson,Spin - Volume 1,→ISBN:She wasn't much taller than five feet andchange, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.2012, Paul Melko,The Broken Universe,→ISBN, page181:“Six hundred andchangeshares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning."2013, Tony Pypka,Raptor,→ISBN, page180:Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred andchangelight years from Earth.It cost me two dollarsand change.(i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)How fast was he going? A hundredand change.(i.e., more than 100 but less than 110)."A Million and 1 Questions" byJay Z.This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundredand change; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeand,change.
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