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What is the meaning of say in the following sentence:

- Say, could you bring us the knife?
- Knife?
- Yeah. Thank you.

(12 Angry Men, 1957)

I can guess that it is some kind of filler word (I don't think filler is the right word). But, I couldn't find anything on the web. Can you give some reference about this kind of usage?

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    It is from the redundant phrase "I say ...", but you can parse it as an interjection. – AmI Jan 02 '18 at 21:07

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