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never never

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nev⋅er-nev⋅er

  [nev-er-nev-er]
Use never never in a Sentence
–noun
1. never-never land.
2. British Slang. hire-purchase system.
–adjective
3. not real or true; imaginary or ideal; illusory: the never-never world of the cinema.
Origin:
1880–85

never-never land

 
–noun
1. an unreal, imaginary, or ideal state, condition, place, etc.
2. any remote, isolated, barren, or sparsely settled region.
Also called neverland, never-never.

Origin:
1875–85 for def. 2; redupl. of never
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