Used as a greeting, equivalent to ‘hello’ or ‘how are you?’
‘howzit my china—surprised to see me?’
‘It was good to see some of them and say howzit, but a huge gulf of difference between us all meant that small talk dried up very quickly.’
‘Better yet, send me photos and directions to all the secret breaks you find from the inspiration of this column, and I'll drop in some day to say ‘howzit?’’
‘I say Howzit! to iWeek magazine’
‘A real Afrikaner might reply to a "Howzit" with a bewildering response.’
Origin
Contraction of how is it?.
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