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'fore

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See also: fore, Fore, fóre, foré, forè, fôre, före, főre, fore-, and føre

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'fore

  1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Aphetic form of before.
    • 1996, Nas (lyrics and music), “The Message”, in It Was Written[1]:
      Heard shots and dropped, son, caught a hot one
      Somebody take this biscuit 'fore the cops come
    • 2014, J. Cole (lyrics and music), “No Role Modelz”, in 2014 Forest Hills Drive[2]:
      I got defensive and said, "Nah, I was the same without it"
      But then I thought back, back to a better me
      Before I was a B-list celebrity
      'Fore I started callin' bitches "bitches" so heavily

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