WHAT'S WITH Definition & Meaning

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Also, what's up with ; what gives with . What is going on with; tell me about or explain it. For example, What's with all the food they're giving away? or What's up with Lee these days? or What gives with Jack? Why is he so glum? This idiom is also sometimes used as a substitute for how are you or what's wrong , as in Hi, Pam, what's with you? or What gives with you—why are you yelling? [ Colloquial ; c. 1940]

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"What's with these socks?" the president asked, as the room erupted in laughter.

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But the more pressing question — especially if you caught this PepsiCo subsidiary’s 2020 holiday ad campaign: What’s with the painting of Snoop as a centaur, the family table flanked with CGI mini-Snoop children and his kitchen-counter conversation with a high-fiving turtle?

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“What’s with these shoes?” he asks a guard, holding up one of the generic white slip-ons everyone's wearing.

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She’s like, what’s with the cousin?

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If you’ve been watching the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign and been wondering, What’s with this guy?, well, a worm ate his brain.

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