Adverb: in any case
- Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
"I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle";
- anyhow, anyway, anyways [N. Amer, informal], at any rate, in any event, anyroad [UK, dialect]
- Making an additional point; anyway
"she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her";
- besides