Meaning of wouldn't've | Babel Free

Definitions

Contraction of would + not + have.

abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction

Examples

“Anyway, my Daddy said if you wasn’t such a coward, trying to haze that boy with a big bunch of others, you wouldn’t’ve got shot in the first place⟳ […]”

“[…] if there had been a man around, taking hold⟳ of things, her father’s partner wouldn’t’ve been able to get⟳ away with most of the estate the way he did…”

“I didn’t bring⟳ him here. If you wouldn’t have⟳ gone out, I wouldn’t have⟳ either. I’d have⟳ thrown him out right away. He wouldn’t’ve made it through the door.”

“2006 October, Goff Morgan, "We Wouldn't've Had To Do It" (poem).”

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