like

[King_]

This is a dialogue from a movie:

they gave it to me, like, six months after I started.

- What does like mean in this sentence?

- Like is in the sentence for what? and why?!

Thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

"Like" is a word that a lot of people use instead of "about" or "approximately" and that's how it's being used in your sentence. The person thinks it was "about six months after he/she started" that he was given something.

It's also frequently inserted, utterly needlessly, as a filler word.

 

[Tarheel]

If you, like, don"t pay attention, you, like, totally won"t, like, get it.
;-)

(Note that the "dialogue" is a noncount noun.)

 

[emsr2d2]

(If anybody 'likes' this post, I shall, like, thcream and thcream and thcream.)

Go on then!

 

[Skrej]

Duuuude, like chill out man, and switch to like, decaf or something.