Usually means: Existential question about life's value.
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We found 4 dictionaries that define the word to be or not to be:

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  1. To be, or not to be: Dictionary.com
  2. To Be or Not to Be (TV series), To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap), To Be or Not to Be (book), To Be or Not to Be (disambiguation), To Be or Not to Be (play), To Be or Not to Be, To be or not to be (Shakespeare), To be or not to be: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. To be or not to be, To Be or Not to Be: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (To Be or Not to Be)

noun:  a 1942 American black comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, and featuring Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges and Sig Ruman.
noun:  a 1983 American war comedy film directed by Alan Johnson, produced by Mel Brooks, and starring Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, and José Ferrer.
noun:  a play written by Nick Whitby, based on the 1942 film To Be or Not to Be.
noun:  "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" is a comedy hip hop song recorded by Mel Brooks in 1983 for Island Records.
noun:  To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure, also referred to as To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure, is a 2013 novel by Ryan North, retelling the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a choose your own adventure format and mostly contemporary language.
noun:  Nightmare's ninth full-length studio album.
noun:  To Be or Not to Be, formerly titled Hakka Women (and released overseas under that name) is a 2014 television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network.
noun:  "To Be or Not to Be" is a song by Scottish musician BA Robertson, released in May 1980 as the fifth and final single from his debut album Initial Success.


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