Written form of areduction ofcouldhave.
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Like other similarly formed contractions, speakers only usecoulda to replace the modal sense ofcould have, i.e. wherehave precedes a past participle:We coulda seen each other. They donot use it to replacecould followed by the verbhave used lexically, e.g.*We coulda coffee. See alsogonna.
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