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somebody

1 pronoun
     
some‧bod‧y1 S1 W3
used to mean a person, when you do not know, or do not say who the person is [= someone; ↪ anybody, everybody, nobody]:
There's somebody waiting to see you.
Somebody's car alarm kept me awake all night.
somebody new/different/good etc
We need somebody neutral to sort this out.
If you can't make it Friday, we can invite somebody else (=a different person).
'Who can we get to babysit?' 'I'll call Suzie or somebody.'
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