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- verb
Eye dialect spelling ofgoing .
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Examples
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There will be some celebratin 'goin' on at the Tezuka Osamu museum in Osaka and indeed all over Japan.
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It's awfully entertainin 'goin' and pumpin 'him with stuff about a bazaar for church expenses, but when he's so jolly pleased about it and that, I feel a worm.
Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923
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Don't you be feared; thar's nuthin 'goin' hurt ye.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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And because of Lewis and other rock pioneers, there indeed was a whole lot of shakin 'goin on.
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"Take the midnight train goin 'anywhere": The White Sox adopted Don't Stop Believin ', a 1981 hit by Journey, as their theme song, playing it in the clubhouse and singing it on the team plane.
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_ If you call goin 'around passin' of them up that she's knowed well 'improved' why then she has improved wonderful.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Aladdin's own -- "what's your new name goin 't' be?"
The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913
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"How about my name goin 'back on the books?" asked Williams.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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You may be on to something that if we got to know each other, there probably would be less name calling goin around.
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You may be on to something that if we got to know each other, there probably would be less name calling goin around.
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