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jawn /dʒɔːn /
noun US English dialect (chiefly in eastern Pennsylvania) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific name to:
these jawns are very inexpensive
who is this beautiful jawn?
[mass noun] the dude reporting this jawn has not the slightest clue.
– ORIGIN 1990s: perhaps an alteration of joint.