Meaning of fill in the blank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A language exercise in which one or more words are replaced with a blank line and the reader is tasked with supplying a valid replacement.
2. A placeholder allowing for any of a variety of possible answers or a single elicited answer.
   figuratively, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The test consisted of fill-in-the-blank sentences.”

“The emphasis on doing the Bible study portion. This is not a fill in the blank with a simple answer from the Bible that “says” what we are looking for.”

“It was important that she make something memorable. She wanted to be complimented. She wanted people to go home after the party and say, “Wasn't Dorothy's — fill in the blank — amazing?"”

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