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One word that I keep seeing in American police bodycam videos is "finna"
and try as I might, I can NOT figure out just what the heck it means.

I assume it's a contraction or slurring of words but I can't figure out
WHICH words. The context is not helping much either.

My best guess is that it's a slurring of "fixing to" (as in "preparing
to do x"). Am I close?
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On 9/4/2026 1:59 PM, Rhino wrote:

One word that I keep seeing in American police bodycam videos is "finna"
and try as I might, I can NOT figure out just what the heck it means.

I assume it's a contraction or slurring of words but I can't figure out WHICH words. The context is not helping much either.

My best guess is that it's a slurring of "fixing to" (as in "preparing
to do x"). Am I close?

Might help if we knew the surrounding phrasing.


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One word that I keep seeing in American police bodycam videos is "finna" and try as I might, I can NOT figure out just what the heck it means.

I assume it's a contraction or slurring of words but I can't figure out WHICH
words. The context is not helping much either.

My best guess is that it's a slurring of "fixing to" (as in "preparing to do x"). Am I close?

Meaning: "expresses that an action is about to happen".
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On 2026-09-04 3:40 p.m., Capricorne wrote:

One word that I keep seeing in American police bodycam videos is
"finna" and try as I might, I can NOT figure out just what the heck it
means.

I assume it's a contraction or slurring of words but I can't figure
out WHICH words. The context is not helping much either.

My best guess is that it's a slurring of "fixing to" (as in "preparing
to do x"). Am I close?

Meaning: "expresses that an action is about to happen".

Thank you! Do you have any idea how this term originated?
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On 9/4/2026 1:07 PM, Rhino wrote:

Thank you! Do you have any idea how this term originated?

It's stupid ghetto speak.
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On 9/4/2026 4:54 PM, Travoltron wrote:

On 9/4/2026 1:07 PM, Rhino wrote:

Thank you! Do you have any idea how this term originated?

It's stupid ghetto speak.

...like 'gotta', and 'wanna', and 'didja'.


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On 2026-09-04 4:54 p.m., Travoltron wrote:

On 9/4/2026 1:07 PM, Rhino wrote:

Thank you! Do you have any idea how this term originated?

It's stupid ghetto speak.

A lot of white people have used it in the videos I've seen.
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On 9/4/2026 6:09 PM, Rhino wrote:

A lot of white people have used it in the videos I've seen.

There are a lot of stupid white people out there that try to act black.
We had a name for them in high school that was very politically incorrect.
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