true dat

Altered pronunciation of true that.

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true dat

1. (slang) An emphatic statement of agreement or affirmation.
   • 2002, Sheila Copeland, Princess Sister, Sepia/BET Books, →ISBN, page 227:

     "No one would ever think you were born in Paris."
     "True dat."

   • 2007, Jennifer Echols, The Boys Next Door, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 109:

     "And Adam looks a lot like Sean."
     "True dat."

   • 2011 20 January, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan, "The Love Car Displacement", episode 4-13 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:15:19-00:15:33:

     Penny: I really appreciate you letting me stay here tonight. […] I know it's kind of weird.
     

     Leonard Hofstadter: True dat.
     

     Penny: "True dat?"
     

     Leonard Hofstadter: I've gotten a lot more street since we broke up.
     

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:true dat.

• tru dat

• trufax (Internet slang), true that