or so

idiom

—used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact

We plan to stay a week or so.

Tickets cost $20 or so.

Examples of or so in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Head to SoCal's Theme Parks On top of being close to Disneyland Park, Huntington Beach is about an hour or so from Legoland in Carlsbad, California, and about 35 minutes from Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. —Anna Halkidis, Parents, 21 Jan. 2025

But then the number of unlikable people who slept four hours or so out of twenty-four includes such dubious sorts as Napoleon and Kissinger. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025

So, too, did TikTok lean into our era’s nostalgia-dominant pop culture, breathing life into long lost (or so Gen Z may think) classics from acts like Fleetwood Mac, Boney M., Billy Joel, and even Aly & AJ. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2025

Having 4,500 or so different banks in this country may not be sustainable, especially when 77% of them have less than a billion dollars in assets, per Raymond James. —Kelly Evans, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025