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anybody's/anyone's guess

noun

Definition of anybody's/anyone's guess

: something that is very uncertain or that no one knows
  • What causes these changes is anybody's guess.
  • It's anyone's guess what his next book will be about.

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anybody play

  1. : any person : anyone

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anyone play

  1. : any person at all

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guess play

  1. : to form an opinion of from little or no evidence

  2. : believe, suppose

  3. : to arrive at a correct conclusion about by conjecture, chance, or intuition

  1. : conjecture, surmise

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