"what's going on" meaning in English

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Interjection

Audio: En-au-what's going on.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-interj|head=what's going on?}} what's going on?
  1. (idiomatic) An informal greeting. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Greetings Translations (an informal greeting): 在幹嘛呢 (Chinese Mandarin), 在干嘛呢 (zài gànmá ne) (Chinese Mandarin), miten menee (Finnish), qu’est-ce qui se passe (French), wie geht's (German), was geht ab? [slang] (German), wah gwaan (Jamaican Creole), qué pasó (Spanish), qué pasa (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-what's_going_on-en-intj-3-OoYjjd Disambiguation of Greetings: 66 34 Disambiguation of 'an informal greeting': 98 2
  2. (idiomatic) Expression of concern, asking for an explanation Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: what's happening?, what's up?, what's new?, what's happening, what's up, what gives?, what goes on? [dated], what is it Translations (expression of concern): 怎麼了 (Chinese Mandarin), 怎么了 (zěnme le) (Chinese Mandarin), mistä on kyse? (Finnish), mikä on? (Finnish), τι τρέχει; (ti tréchei;) (Greek), mi történik itt? (Hungarian), mi folyik itt? (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-what's_going_on-en-intj-N2iWBvrE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasebook, English phrasebook/Greetings, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of English phrasebook: 9 91 Disambiguation of English phrasebook/Greetings: 38 62 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 91 Disambiguation of 'expression of concern': 3 97

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      "word": "what goes on?"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "在幹嘛呢"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zài gànmá ne",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "在干嘛呢"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "miten menee"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "qu’est-ce qui se passe"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "wie geht's"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "was geht ab?"
    },
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      "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "wah gwaan"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "qué pasó"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an informal greeting",
      "word": "qué pasa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "怎麼了"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "怎么了"
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      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "mistä on kyse?"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "mikä on?"
    },
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ti tréchei;",
      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "τι τρέχει;"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "mi történik itt?"
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      "sense": "expression of concern",
      "word": "mi folyik itt?"
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