# What even is a "jawn"?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [August 4, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650 "2025-08-04T21:03:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dragonfruitea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dragonfruitea)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/1 "2025-08-04T21:03:20Z")
ive seen the word “jawn” thrown around in videos specifically on instagram, and i was just wondering what your interpretation of the word is. (it doesnt have to be serious idc) my interpritation is like a really hard trick that looks really cool. so tell me what does the word “jawn” mean to you?
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### Author:  [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/2 "2025-08-04T21:07:58Z")
It’s what you’re sitting on while you do your business
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/3 "2025-08-04T21:08:22Z")
Obviously it’s just a guy named Jawn that’s like really good at yoyo
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### Author:  [@Hunger4ungeR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hunger4ungeR)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/4 "2025-08-04T21:17:32Z")
As someone who lives just outside philly… jawn means almost anything lol
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### Author:  [@VidTrent](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/VidTrent)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/5 "2025-08-04T21:18:34Z")
I’ve not heard that work yet but now that I’m here, I thought I could ask a question of my own. I’ve been learning a lot of tricks that have “Rail” in the name, especially the Rewind YT channel. I love their tutorials but just curious what rail means in relation to a yoyo trick or combo?
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/6 "2025-08-04T21:21:09Z")
From Wikipedia:
Jawn is a slang term local to Philadelphia and, by extension, the Delaware Valley that may refer to a thing, place, person, or event, substituting for a specific word/name. Jawn is a context-dependent substitute noun; a noun that substitutes for other nouns.[1] Jawn can be singular or plural. Examples include: “These jawns are expensive!”,[2] “Pass me that jawn.”, “Slow it down, jawn.”, “That new jawn.”, “This jawn is packed.”.[3]
Jawn is believed to be derived from the word “joint” (as its proper pronunciation sounds more like “joiwn”).[4][5] Historically, the city’s black population migrated to the northern part of the city from Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas/Virginia, bringing with them a Southern dialect that carried words such as ‘joint’.[6]
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/7 "2025-08-04T21:22:08Z")
I think it’s when you step on a rusty nail and get tetanus. You get lockjaw so it looks like you’re yawning: jawn.
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### Author:  [@dragonfruitea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dragonfruitea)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/8 "2025-08-04T21:24:21Z")
in relation to a combo, i cant really explain it but brandon vu has a really good and simple explanation of it in one of his videos.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcLfyApifU&t=303)
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### Author:  [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/9 "2025-08-04T21:42:58Z")
Any trick that has the yoyo sliding along the string, i.e. Skin the Gerbil and Superflow.
The post above give good examples of complex rail combos, namely Godspeed
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### Author:  [@Lex](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lex)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/10 "2025-08-04T22:18:51Z")
In yo-yoing, jawn seems to mostly be used as a synonym for “banger” in my experience. Aka a big flashy trick that’s usually focused on a single element (so lacerations/hooks or a big zoning/body trick).
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### Author:  [@dragonfruitea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dragonfruitea)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/11 "2025-08-04T22:28:25Z")
maybe a jawn is the friends we made along the way.
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### Author:  [@MoxieOpal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoxieOpal)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/12 "2025-08-04T22:37:55Z")
Jawn is east coast thing
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### Author:  [@dragonfruitea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dragonfruitea)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/13 "2025-08-04T22:44:10Z")
really? i didnt know how so?
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### Author:  [@MoxieOpal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoxieOpal)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/14 "2025-08-04T22:51:40Z")
Yeah we use it to describe a person place or thing
Just like what berv said
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### Author:  [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/15 "2025-08-04T23:03:04Z")
“Ayo John, what kinda jawn is this jawn? I dunno jawn about it!” :joy:
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### Author:  [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/16 "2025-08-04T23:36:43Z")
“Idk jawn about it” would not be used, but otherwise pretty much correct. We would for sure be using an expletive in that last one lol
“Ayo John, what kinda jawn is this?” “Idk wtf that is”
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### Author:  [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/17 "2025-08-04T23:39:03Z")
I’m being goofy, bro 🤪
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### Author:  [@KiLbUcK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/KiLbUcK)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/18 "2025-08-05T00:02:39Z")
It’s an old song - Delta jawn, what’s that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
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### Author:  [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/19 "2025-08-05T00:53:40Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr3ej_5KHNM)
Christian McBride (from Philly) def uses it all the time.
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### Author:  [@organya1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/organya1)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-even-is-a-jawn/430650/20 "2025-08-05T05:52:16Z")
Love McBride I saw him at a crosswalk before a show, he was chill.
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