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slang from Cork city in Ireland - short for "go on". The term made it's made to the Carribean while Irish slaves were shipped there in the 16th and 17th centuries. Slang Irish terms like this then made their way into the Carribean "patois", particularly Jamaica, where "gwan" is pronounced and used in exactly the same way as in Cork city in Ireland.
"Ah gwan ya langball ya"

"Please do go on about that wonderful event that you are informing me about."
gwan by starchaser February 6, 2004
Aye wa' gwan
Hey what's going on
Gwan by Reeyah May 22, 2006
Jamaican: "Whatta gwan?"
gwan by cErTiFiEd February 3, 2005
A drug dealers word for..
Weed,Marijuana,Cannabis
''yo man can ya get me some gwan?''
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''Safe yo!,meet ya behind the bike shed after school''
gwan by Bevelee June 9, 2005
1.A word meaning going, i picked it up from a old movie called The Defiant Ones
1.I'm gwan to go home.
gwan by EthanB. December 28, 2005