Definition of "maybe" []

• Perhaps; possibly. (adverb)
• Informal An uncertainty: There are so many maybes involved in playing the stock market. (noun)
• Informal An uncertain reply: It's better to receive a fast and honest no than a drawn-out maybe. (noun)

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.

• "We get maybe, *maybe*, one good week a month as women."
• "Now I'll let it sit and ferment for a week or so until I don't know each page by heart and can maybe, _maybe_, see the typos in front of my face."
• "Sony's Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX offers an industry leading 30MB per second transfer rate, which means Handycam users can upload video clips in a fraction of actual playback time. maybe, * maybe* reconsidering my planned Pentax K7-for-multi-lens-video purchase ...."