Definition of "-like" []

• Resembling or characteristic of: ladylike. (suffix)

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• "That can create a dangerous "V"-like gap with the mattress in which a baby can get caught and suffocate."
• "Humorist S.J. Perelman, who served for years as the New Yorker's resident curmudgeon, tried his hand at playwriting with this "Candide"-like satire about a naive young idealist who bangs his head against the rank commercialism and overall idiocy of postwar America."
• "It's hard enough to launch a "Lost"-like drama these days, much less relaunch one."