"'fore" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "before"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of before",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of before.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "'fore",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'fore",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Nas (lyrics and music), “The Message”, in It Was Written",
          "text": "Heard shots and dropped, son, caught a hot one\nSomebody take this biscuit 'fore the cops come",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, J. Cole (lyrics and music), “No Role Modelz”, in 2014 Forest Hills Drive",
          "roman": "'Fore I started callin' bitches \"bitches\" so heavily",
          "text": "I got defensive and said, \"Nah, I was the same without it\"\nBut then I thought back, back to a better me\nBefore I was a B-list celebrity",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "before"
      ],
      "id": "en-'fore-en-prep-bbfYA-dP",
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly African-American Vernacular) before"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "fore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "four"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'fore"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "before"
      },
      "expansion": "Aphetic form of before",
      "name": "aphetic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of before.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositions",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "'fore",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "'fore",
      "name": "en-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English aphetic forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English prepositions",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Nas (lyrics and music), “The Message”, in It Was Written",
          "text": "Heard shots and dropped, son, caught a hot one\nSomebody take this biscuit 'fore the cops come",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, J. Cole (lyrics and music), “No Role Modelz”, in 2014 Forest Hills Drive",
          "roman": "'Fore I started callin' bitches \"bitches\" so heavily",
          "text": "I got defensive and said, \"Nah, I was the same without it\"\nBut then I thought back, back to a better me\nBefore I was a B-list celebrity",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "before"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly African-American Vernacular) before"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "fore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "four"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "'fore"
}