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third-person singular simple present is like, present participle being like, simple past was like, past participle been like
To be similar to something. quotations examples
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
To be typical or characteristic of someone or something. examples
(informal, idiomatic, chiefly US, MLE and Internet slang) To say. quotations
This weekend he called me up and he's all “Where were you today?” and I'm like “I'm at my Grandmother's house”…
1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)
A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.”
2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71