CULTURETECHLENSwassup
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Combined Graph record U-00701 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0300. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Dictionary.com slang explainer (1 Mar 2018, fetched in full): 'What's up is an informal greeting... Later iterations, including wassup, whassup, whaddup, and wazzup evolved from slurring the consonants of the original phrase. These iterations first came into use in the early 20th century... Whaddup in particular is commonplace in AAVE.' Stored gloss 'greeting' matches.
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Dictionary.com slang explainer (1 Mar 2018, fetched in full): 'What's up is an informal greeting... Later iterations, including wassup, whassup, whaddup, and wazzup evolved from slurring the consonants of the original phrase. These iterations first came into use in the early 20th century... Whaddup in particular is commonplace in AAVE.' Stored gloss 'greeting' matches.
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- Also known as: whaddup, sup
- Work type: phrase
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Dictionary.com slang explainer (1 Mar 2018, fetched in full): 'What's up is an informal greeting... Later iterations, including wassup, whassup, whaddup, and wazzup evolved from slurring the consonants of the original phrase. These iterations first came into use in the early 20th century... Whaddup in particular is commonplace in AAVE.' Stored gloss 'greeting' matches.
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