Usually means: Person referred to nonspecifically, vaguely.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word so and so:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. so and so: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. so-and-so: Merriam-Webster
  3. so-and-so: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. so-and-so: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. so-and-so, so-and-so: Collins English Dictionary
  6. so-and-so: Vocabulary.com
  7. so-and-so: Wordnik
  8. so-and-so: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. so-and-so: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. so-and-so, so and so: Dictionary.com
  11. so-and-so: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. So and so: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. so-and-so: Rhymezone
  14. so-and-so: FreeDictionary.org
  15. so-and-so: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. so-and-so: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. so-and-so: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  18. so-and-so, so and so: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. so-and-so: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. so-and-so: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. so-and-so, so and so: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (So and so)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of so-and-so [A placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic person or thing.]

Similar:
lowlife, rotter, stinker, bum, crumb, puke, skunk, rat, scum bag, sayso, more...

Opposite:
antonym, opposite word, reverse

Types:
jerk, son of bitch, more...

Phrases:
so gigantic and cool his hoofs were so, so on and so forth, more...

Adjectives:
swell, xenial, dyvers, upper, high-level, popular, one and only, friendly, upper crust, nobby, good

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Similar:
lowlife, rotter, stinker, bum, crumb, puke, skunk, rat, scum bag, sayso, more...

Opposite:
antonym, opposite word, reverse

Types:
jerk, son of bitch, more...

Phrases:
so gigantic and cool his hoofs were so, so on and so forth, more...

Adjectives:
swell, xenial, dyvers, upper, high-level, popular, one and only, friendly, upper crust, nobby, good



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