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Definition of "c'mon" [c'mon]

  • Informal Contraction of come on.

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "c'mon" in a sentence
  • "I know he re-hashes the same story, but c'mon guys, what about David Gemmell??"
  • "I have seen small children in Jurassic Park (which scared me and I was in high school - c'mon, it was scary the first time!) and dozens of other child-inappropriate movies like the Passion of the Christ (come ON, Jesus ends up practially FLAYED, your kid does not need to see that, I don't care how holy you think it is!)"
  • "LK: Interestingly, there is a recent "sub-genre" of science fiction named "MundaneSF" which shouts "c'mon authors, life isn't going to change that much in the next century, ground your science fiction in reality.""
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