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A word with no particular definition. If you don't know quite what you'd like to say, simply in sert it with a 'gwaa'. Great for when you're in an environment where curising isn't allowed, or when you want to get out of explaining something in detail to someone.
What the gwaa?! Why is he with her?

I really want to gwaa tonight.

Boy: Hey, why didn't you call me last night?
Girl: Uhh...I had to do laundry and cook and gwaa...
Boy: Oh ok!
Gwaa by ItsAvieBaby February 23, 2009
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its a South African slang for a cigarette
Do you have a gwaai on you
gwaai by AortaB February 10, 2009
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Wah Gwaan 

A slang term from Jamaica used as a greeting; Equivalent of, "what's up?"
Wah Gwaan by funholidayman September 15, 2009
A guttural cry, usual emitted by the anus in times of great distress.
I ate too much chicken curry last nite, so I gwaabifed everywhere.
Gwaabif by hobodog October 11, 2010

Wah Gwaan 

Quite literally and phonetically means "What's going on" - "Wah - gw - aan" - pronounced identically to its spelling
The word, however, is more recognized as "What's up"

A slang/word in Jamaican Creole, commonly used among friends and acquaintances as a form of greeting one another.

Frequently used in places such as South London, primarily among black individuals with Jamaican derivation and non-Jamaican derivation alike .
"Wah Gwaan, bro"

"Yo, Sully!"

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"Wah Gwaan"
Wah Gwaan by Cladhouse December 24, 2019

waa-gwaan 

Jamaican slang for greeting someone: English- "Whats going on?".

Increasingly popular in London, New York, Florida and Canada.
John: yow man! waa-gwaan?
Ezra: nuttin much, tell mi nuh.

(John: hey man! whats going on?

Ezra: Nothing much, you tell me.)
waa-gwaan by adriott June 9, 2009

gwaaotsp 

glad we are all on the same page
"After we made some decisions today, I am gwaaotsp (glad we are all on the same page)"
gwaaotsp by RF&KD January 2, 2020
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