Usually means: Expression used to attribute speech.
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  1. quotative: Merriam-Webster
  2. quotative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quotative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. quotative: Wordnik
  5. quotative: Wiktionary
  6. Quotative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (quotative)

noun:  (grammar) A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
noun:  (linguistics) A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
adjective:  (grammar) Serving to mark quoted speech.

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