EVERY LAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does every last mean? 

• EVERY LAST (adjective)
  The adjective EVERY LAST has 1 sense:

1. (used as intensive) every

  Familiarity information: EVERY LAST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERY LAST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as intensive) every

Context example:

every last one of you

Similar:

all ((quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class)

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

Every last one of them, semaphore, lamp code, Marconi—a copy, mind you, not the original.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)