(colloquial) As, the way. / As if; as though.

(chiefly in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). / (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.

Likely. / (colloquial, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler. / (colloquial) Indicating approximation or uncertainty.

(chiefly dialectal, intransitive) To be likely.

(sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.

simple past tense and past participle of like

To be similar to something. / To be typical or characteristic of someone or something. / (informal, idiomatic, chiefly US and MLE) To say.

(informal) Used to indicate that something is the case and cannot be altered even if the listener does not want it to be the case.

(adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner / (adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind. / (adverbial) suddenly; unexpectedly.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Gay; homosexual.