From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] .
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
2. * {{ RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge
|passage=Defiance to thy power, thou rifted JAWN! Now, by the loved heaven,
sooner thou shalt Rinse thy foul ribs from the black filth of sin That soots
thy heart than make me wretched.}}
*** Etymology 2
[1990s]. Most likely an alteration of [en]. Compare [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] Something ; a thing ; any object, place, or person.
2. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | year=2001 | author=Steve Jackson | title=Takin it back B/W BEEF | newsgroup=rec.music.hip-hop | url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/c415feed930748c0
|passage="Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that
JAWN was just as good."}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=September 23 2007 | author=Jessica Pressler | title=The Bar Car is Rocking | journal=New York Times | titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/fashion/23boite.html?ref=fashion
|passage="Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the
dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups
Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the JAWN.'"}}
1. * 2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) see http://genius.com/Mk-asante-buck-a-memoir-chap-1-annotated :
2. *: " JAWN can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug JAWN in for everything. The other day I was at the JAWN around the corner with the young JAWN from down the street. We get to the JAWN , right, and the ngh at the door is all on his JAWN , not knowing I had that JAWN on me. Man, it was about to be on in that JAWN ."
3. [en] A woman .
4. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=July 16 1999 | author=“da One and Only Jazzman” | title=Re: RapCity: UnderHouston | newsgroup=rec.music.hip-hop | url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/edf3ed4e04932a25
|passage=MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the
philly JAWNS were easy.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Krystle J. Nutter | title=Turned Out | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5ehZ6HwispcC | page=1 | publisher=iUniverse | isbn=0-595-36207-9
|passage=I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main JAWN
stuck out in particular.}}
1. * [page=67]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=G. D. McCrary | title=Guerrillas in the Midst | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QX5h8KeTbXMC | page=39 | publisher=Papyrus & Pen Publishing | isbn=0977068714
|passage=“Who? The JAWN sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”
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1. * [en]
*** See also
- shawty