what\ about\ it

what\ about\ it
• what of it
• what about it
interj. informal
What is wrong with it; what do you care.

Martha said "that boy is wearing a green coat." Jan answered, "What of it?"

"John missed the bus." "What of it?"

Syn.: so what

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