"'bout" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "about"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of about",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of about.",
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      },
      "expansion": "'bout",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'bout",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 20:",
          "text": "That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I need a man like that.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "about."
      ],
      "id": "en-'bout-en-prep-Q4xGy~8V",
      "links": [
        [
          "about",
          "about"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial or poetic) about."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/baʊt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "bout"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'bout"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "about"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of about",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of about.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "'bout",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'bout",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English aphetic forms",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English prepositions",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊt",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊt/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nikki Carter, Not A Good Look, page 20:",
          "text": "That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I need a man like that.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "about."
      ],
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        [
          "about",
          "about"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial or poetic) about."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/baʊt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "bout"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'bout"
}