and the like

From the 16th century. Replaced earlier and other like.

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and the like

1. (idiomatic, informal) And other similar items; et cetera.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:

     And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace [...] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10:

     Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

• and so on