and the like

English edit

From the 16th century. Replaced earlier and other like.

(idiomatic, informal) And other similar items; et cetera.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:
  And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace [...] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 10:
  Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

and the like