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some kind of

adverb

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adv

  1. Used as an intensifier of adjectives: remarkably

    “"Why is he grounded?" / "Went to a^([sic]) underwear option party up in Natchitoches. That boy, he is some kind of wild."”

    “Those women must have been some kind of ugly.”

det

  1. a mediocre; a bare minimum; (denoting that something only barely fits a certain category, or is very mediocre in it)
  2. A remarkable.

    “I'm not going to pry into your life, but I wish you'd tell me how you got to the South Carolina Lowcountry. That trip must be some kind of story.”

    “Lindsey glanced at Tom, who smiled, apparently in no hurry to talk about that training op. Red Cell. That was going to be some kind of fun.”

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, kind, of.