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What does "wesh" mean?

Yo / hey — a greeting, or a "what?"

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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

A banlieue greeting that spread through French rap into general youth slang. "Wesh, ça va?" is a very casual hello. Said sharply it can be confrontational.

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Where it comes from

From Algerian Arabic "wešnu" / "wāš", meaning what.

Before you say it

Strongly marked. Great with friends your age, badly out of place almost anywhere else.

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