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A Writer's Dictionary:

be us Definition


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us
pronoun
    1. The speaker or writer together with another person or other people; the object form of we.
      Example: asked us the way
      Example: give it to us
    2. All or any people; one.
      Example: Computers can help us to work more efficiently
    3a. colloq
      Me;
      Example: Give us a hand
    3b. colloq
      Ourselves.
      Example: looks like we'll make us a pile of dough
    4. formal
      Used by monarchs, etc: me.
Idiom: be us
    colloq
    To be suited to us.
      Example: Breakdancing is just not us
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.

Info:
    See Usage Note at we.


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