What's up?

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For the 4 Non Blondes song, see What's Up (song)
For the Boston, Massachusetts street newspaper, see Whats Up Magazine

What's up? is an informal question meaning, depending on situation and emphasis: "What are you doing?", "How are you?", "What is happening?" or "What gives?" It is sometimes used as an informal, casual greeting in itself. This expression was made popular by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny who used it as early as 1940 as part of his catch phrase "What's up Doc?" (where each word was pronounced distinctly).

Whassup (sometimes spelled Wussup or wassup) is also a commonly used African American Vernacular English term of the same meaning. It was the central theme of an advertising campaign for Anheuser-Busch owned "Budweiser" beer brand in the early 2000s.

The phrase is often shortened to "sup", and this term is commonly used as internet slang.

"What's up?" is now rephrased in many ways, mostly for Internet slang and chatting. A few include:

  • "sup"
  • "waz up"
  • "wts up"
  • "wts new"
  • "waz happenin"
  • "wuzzup"
  • "whussup"
  • "wuzzgoinon"
  • "wattup"
  • "Zappening"
  • "Zup"

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