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  • interjection slang, US I approve.; I agree.
  • interjection Hello.
  • interjection "what's up?"; "what's happening?"; "what's the word?";
  • interjection "Listen up!"; "pay attention!".

Etymologies

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Originated in United States, black English (i.e. African American Vernacular English) of the 1980s. (See Ebonics).

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