"thang" meaning in English

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      "word": "ain't nothing but a thang"
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  "etymology_text": "An altered spelling of thing, representing pronunciation in the southern United States (see thank–think merger); compare everytang.\nAlso see archaic variants for \"thing\" like Middle English theing.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "thing"
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        {
          "word": "usually used to denote a known fad or popular activity"
        }
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          "text": "Do your own thang.",
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          "ref": "1977, “Sweet Thang”, in Freedom Flight, performed by Shuggie Otis:",
          "text": "Ooh baby, sweet thang",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 180:",
          "text": "I loved playing ball for Syracuse. Couldn't get enough of doing my thang on that court and showing motherfuckers all my skills.",
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          "ref": "2024 June 10, @timanddeetv, quoting Haliey Welch, Instagram:",
          "text": "[Dee:] What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?\n[Haliey Welch:] Oh, you gotta give him that hawk tuah and spit on that thang, you get me?",
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        }
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          "fad",
          "fad"
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        "the buttocks."
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      "ipa": "/ˈθæŋ/",
      "note": "without æ-raising",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθeɪ̯ŋ/",
      "note": "æ-raising"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɛ̃ŋ/",
      "note": "æ-raising"
    },
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    "Sino-Vietnamese words",
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    {
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              12,
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          "text": "Do your own thang.",
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          "ref": "1977, “Sweet Thang”, in Freedom Flight, performed by Shuggie Otis:",
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              67,
              72
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          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 180:",
          "text": "I loved playing ball for Syracuse. Couldn't get enough of doing my thang on that court and showing motherfuckers all my skills.",
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              139,
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          "text": "[Dee:] What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?\n[Haliey Welch:] Oh, you gotta give him that hawk tuah and spit on that thang, you get me?",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈθeɪ̯ŋ/",
      "note": "æ-raising"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθɛ̃ŋ/",
      "note": "æ-raising"
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