or so

Idioms and Phrases

Approximately, especially alluding to a number, as in Four hundred or so guests are invited . [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

She alleges that he and twenty-or-so named colleagues collectively abused “alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, Special-K, heroin.”

From The Daily Beast

OK, I was twelve-or-so at the time—and a couple of hundred pounds slighter than I am now.

From The Daily Beast