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What does this phrase mean: "What gives"?



 
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What does this phrase mean: "What gives"? #1 (permalink) Tue Dec 28, 2004 18:27 pm   What does this phrase mean: "What gives"?
 

Hi, what does the phrase what gives mean?
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What gives? #2 (permalink) Tue Dec 28, 2004 18:40 pm   What gives?
 

It's colloquial and means What's going? on or What's happening?

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