was

1. (now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.Examples: "There was three of them there."; "And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head."colloquial

2. (now colloquial or nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were.Examples: "You was pleased to cast a favourable eye upon me."; ""Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?""colloquialform-ofindicativenonstandardpastsecond-personsingular

3. (colloquial, nonstandard) first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.Examples: "“What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”"colloquialfirst-personform-ofindicativenonstandardpastplural

4. (colloquial, nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.Examples: "When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now baby / Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah"; "Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too."colloquialform-ofindicativenonstandardpastpluralthird-person