"gonna" meaning in English

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          "word": "gonnabe"
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        {
          "ref": "1931, Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar",
          "text": "Well, you ain't got much longer to laugh. I'm coming, and I'm gonna put one in your dirty hide for every lying crack that you made about me, see?",
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          "ref": "1987, Stock Aitken Waterman (lyrics and music), “Never Gonna Give You Up”, in Whenever You Need Somebody, performed by Rick Astley, RCA Records",
          "text": "Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(colloquial, with bare infinitive) Contraction of going to when followed by an infinitive verb: used to express a future action."
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          "word": "to"
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        {
          "word": "coulda"
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        {
          "word": "gotta"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoulda"
        },
        {
          "word": "wanna"
        },
        {
          "word": "woulda"
        },
        {
          "word": "I'm 'onna"
        },
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          "word": "I'mma"
        },
        {
          "word": "finna"
        }
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          "word": "gon"
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          "word": "gon'"
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          "word": "gunna"
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          "word": "gonner"
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɔn.ə/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɒn.ə/",
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      "rhymes": "-ʌnə"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔnə"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ənə"
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      "homophone": "gunner (non-rhotic accents)"
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      "homophone": "goner (non-rhotic accents)"
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  "word": "gonna"
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        "Rhymes:English/ɒnə",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒnə/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔnə",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔnə/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:English/ənə",
        "Rhymes:English/ənə/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌnə",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌnə/2 syllables"
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      "word": "gon"
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