Lor

//lɔː˦//

"Lor" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Next time lor.

OK lor, go ahead.

bo pian lor.

[B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’

We had no income, so just eat at Koufu or Kopitiam lor.

Within a minute, Hougang uncle moves from denial, anger, and bargaining to “ok lor I’ll just remove them”—a quintessential Singaporean pattern of resignation.

Near-synonym: lah (sense 6)

You lor, or else still got who?

Then tell him lor.

Take a cab lor, easier this way.

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Wait till December lor.

young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this? young father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.

I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.

At my house lor.

It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes. “Relatives lor” is the top reply, and “Small-talk with taxi drivers” emerged as a runner-up because many feel compelled to make conversation after the initial “PIE or CTE?” decision.

As a facilitator, I often ask the participants: how are you feeling now? And often, the replies I get are: "Okay lor", "Like that lor".

Ya lor / Han nor.

A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton on instinct.

When I repeated this idea to my LOR, he mentioned that he saw it in "Da'as Torah", written by R' Yerucham Levovitz, the mashgiach of Mir.

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