• Fina

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    1. (AAVE) Eye dialect of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
      • 2008, Jodie Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
      • 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
      • 2013, Jody Miller, The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration Chapter Case study: African American girls, urban inequality, Then girls come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
      • 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"
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