OVER HERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does over here mean? 

• OVER HERE (adverb)
  The adverb OVER HERE has 1 sense:

1. in a specified area or place

  Familiarity information: OVER HERE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVER HERE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a specified area or place

Synonyms:

over here; up here

Context example:

you shouldn't be up here

 Context examples 

It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you’re an American citizen. ‘It’s British law and order over here,’ says he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is the note written in pencil over here.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No shipping masters or beach-combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Wait a bit! There is a fellow cutting peat up yonder. Bring him over here, and he will guide the police.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What do you mean,” said the tinker, “by wearing my brother's silk handkerchief! Give it over here!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Throw them over here.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel bill, which interests me deeply.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was a young chap then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you would call over here a highway robber.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment. "I'm going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)