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Gwaan is a way of speech used by true Jamaican which really mean go on it is also used in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Kerry said to wayne gwaan a yuh yard before mi mada come catch yuh inna har house and start a fuss

In Jamaica they would say children gwaan a skool and learn the golden rule

Andrea said to her best friend wah gwaan yuh did deh a di dance last nite
Gwaan by Hardrock May 8, 2009
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Jamaican term meaning. Going on / happening
Example. Someone wants to find out whats happening in Jamaican. He will say "wat a gwaan"?

nutten naw gwaan = nothing is going on or happening
Gwaan by Jamaicano January 2, 2011
gwaan fi di bodega mi hafi clip dem bloods
gwaan by CRIP bWOY October 10, 2003
any form of super-smokeable that is likely to get you hiiiiiiiiigh.
gwaan by Daly January 21, 2004
a possitive word used when awesome isnt awesome enough to describe something.
cristiano ronaldo is the gwaanest soccer player in the world. football is a gwaan sport.
gwaan by G is Gwaaner than u December 25, 2012

Wah Gwaan 

A slang term from Jamaica used as a greeting; Equivalent of, "what's up?"
Wah Gwaan by funholidayman September 15, 2009

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
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