It originally meant to roast or make brutal jokes about someone in the 70s and even up to today in southern areas in the United States. In the north it takes on a different meaning as jawning means any and everything.
Those two guys got to jawning each other so bad it was like we were watching Wild N' Out
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This a philly jawn jawn can anything ya mean yb ima hop off this jawn doe
Grab the jawn next to the other jawn Boul
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what philly people use to describe erthing, person, place, thing and etc.
lemme get that jawn”
“ where the jawn from yesterday at?”
“that jawn was wilddd
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Jawn is a word that most people from Philly use to describe things.
Norf Philly boy:dawg you saw shawty on that jawn last night?
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jawn is pretty much a synonym for thing. when you need to describe something without being too specific.
hell yeah, them jawns go hard!
thanks bro, these are my new jordan 1s.
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Meaning thing, object or item.

Mostly used in Massachusetts.
Jay: Yo pass me that jawn.
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Boston and Philly slang word meaning a person, place or a thing.
This jawn taste like shit.

Let's go to that jawn over there.
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