Definition of "been"

She was disloyal, Casper was disloyal, so them muthafuckas gotta go. Like you said[,] we been knew we was going to have to kill Frost, so let's do it and Light too.” Star said. “Say no more. I'ma handle Kisha myself.” Max said walking to the door.

2013, DayQuan Miller, Back Blocks, StealthMode Entertainment, page 147

"Bones", says he, "I tink dey's a-goin' to been a war ober de Alabamy question […]

1875, Minstrel Gags and End Men's Hand-book, New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, page 83; republished New York: Literature House, 1969

Yur a boald 'un to tell the missus theer to hur feeace as how ya wur 'tossicatit whan ya owt to been duing yur larful business.

1888, Mary Augusta Ward, “Book I”, in Robert Elsmere‎, London: Macmillan and Company, page 20

[…] But one time it use' to been so cold right first of the winter.

1966, DARE Tape SC10, quotee, “be v”, in Frederic G. Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall, editors, Dictionary of American Regional English‎, volume 1, Harvard University Press, published 1985, page 178

My love is fair, my love is gay,As fresh as been the flowers in May;

1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris, I, ii

Where when men been, there's ſeldome eaſe,

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, [Act II, Prologue]

O Friar, those are faults that are not seen,Ours open, and of worse example been.

1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, iii

Some of green Boughs their slender Cabbins frame, / Some lodged were Tortoſa's streets about, / Of all the Hoſt the Chief of Worth and Name / Aſſembled been, a Senate grave and ſtout;

1686, Edward Fairfax, transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne: Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem‎, section 20, page 8