fina

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contraction

African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.

OriginItalian Fina →
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Meanings

fina1

contraction
  1. contractionAfrican-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.

    "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"

    2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182
    3 more examples

    I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.

    2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN

    "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."

    2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8

    Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.

    2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267

fina2

nounfina (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationclippinguncountableClipping of finasteride

Fina3

proper nounFina (plural Finas)

plural Finas

  1. A surname from Italian.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
finasteride

Origin

  1. ItalianFina
  2. EnglishFina

Borrowed from Italian Fina.

More words from Italian

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

fainFaniFian
Cite this entry
APA

fina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fina

MLA

“fina.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fina. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fina,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fina.

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