Meaning & use
Wassup
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An informal greeting used to ask someone how they are or what is happening, a casual contraction of "what's up."
See it in a sentence
"Wassup, man? Haven't seen you in ages!"
He walked into the room and called out, "Wassup, everybody?"
A note on using this word
Popularized in casual American speech and made famous by a widely quoted 1999 beer commercial, "wassup" is purely informal and not used in writing.
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heyyo
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