The expression ‘Like’ has a wide variety of uses among English and American speakers. It may describe preference, as in (1) She likes mint chip ice cream. It may be used as a vehicle of comparison, as in (2) Trieste is like Minsk on steroids. Sometimes it is used among American adolescents as quasi-quotational device that reenacts a private or public drama, as in (3) She was like, we need to get out of here fast.1 And sometimes it used scattershot by said adolescents (and others) as a hedging discourse particle (cf. Sigel 2002), as in (4) He got, like, eight job offers in his fourth year of grad school. Each of these uses raises distinct theoretical issues: What exactly is the second relatum of the preferential ‘like’? Does the ‘like’ of comparison express a constant, trivial relation or a contextually variable, restricted one? How do the possible objects of quotational ‘like’ differ from those for standard quotation? How does the hedging function performed by the discourse particle relate to the use of comparative ‘like’ as a hedge? And so on.