Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of going to.
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- phrase with bare infinitive
Eye dialect spelling ofgoing to : used to express a future action.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apparently the TB&TB plot will thicken (like duh) and omgwtf Taylor she’s gonna she’s gonna
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2005
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The Who … …. deaf, dumb, blind kid … … boy is Palin gonna be pissed
Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’ 2010
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And now I'm outta these blogs - gonna live my life honorably again - gonna vote anything but Democrat! john
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Just for that I ain 'gonna put no Moonlight BBQ in your Christmas stockin' no how.
Open Ramblin' William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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Is this where I sing, Where Did Our Love Go? ala Diana Ross. lol Is Jin gonna be raising a son not his like his father?
Live Blogging LOST (Episode 18, Season 3) | the TV addict 2007
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Bands have been doing that for like THREE YEARS or something, what was Zeppelin gonna do, not allow high school kids pay five bucks to have the opening riff of “Whole Lotta Love” play whenever they get a text?
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Ain't nothin 'gonna change that prettiness, but ain't nobody ever gonna convince her that maybe she's a babe.
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I read Grandpa Lionel Richie even made some remark about it himself, the name gonna be difficult, he was surprised.
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OH NO - I said "gonna" - now pacc and the grammar police are coming for me.
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If you have a swivel stud that threads into an escutcheon under the barrel channel use contact cement to secure the escutcheon, then when you screw the swivel stud into the escutcheon, use loctite #271 on the threads. aint nothin gonna unscrew, unless you want it to! ref: Brownells catalog, page 201To avoid slings slipping off your shoulder, get a LARGE button, 1 inch or so, sew it on with "spider wire" or similar wonder line.
My Range Bag 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word gonna
Because 'going to' sounds a bit Chinese.
June 9, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word gonna
Hardly Jamaican patois: Standard English rather. Everyone normally says some reduced form conventionally written 'gonna'.
June 9, 2009