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what it be 

To say hi or start a conversation with another gangsta from your hood in the surburbs of detroit. An all white suburb where no black people live.
What it be dawg
What it be bitch
what it be by Urban Dictionary March 10, 2005

what it be? 

just another lame way to say wats up?
amanda: hey steph
stephie: what it be?
amanda: your soo ghetto fabulous!
what it be? by Stefie is love July 27, 2007

What it be like

A greeting similar to what it is. How's it going? How is it?
Hey, long time no see, what it be like?

it be what it be 

a rephrasement of "it is what it is" meaning "that's how it is" and can be used in order to sound rude or annoying.
Linda: "so, your not gonna take me home? i have to walk?"
Mark: "sorry, bitch. it be what it be"

It be what it do 

a term used by streamers to say "it is what it is" in a unique way
Streamer: *Reading chat* oh you can't sub next month? Its alright man it be what it do.
It be what it do by dawndeviant August 22, 2020

what it can be 

Similar to "what it do", but asking of possibilities in the future, not what's going on in the present. It's a greeting like, "whats up?" or "how are you?", posing the question, "what can we make of this?". It's not asking what's happening or what will happen, but what can happen. What can we make of this opportunity which is the present?
What it can be fellas? Are we gonna make this money or what?
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A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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