true dat

1. used to acknowledge a statement said by another.
2. used to agree with another.

see also: fo real
student 1: teacher always gotta be on my case. its gettin’ racial up in this piece.
student 2: oh, true dat, true dat. she be rollin’ like she own tha mo fo.
student 1: fo real, shawty
indeed; said in agreement
little jimmy from down the lane: hi, mr. ghetto! you look cool today!
mr. ghetto: true dat, true dat!
meaning 1: that is true. replaces “word” or “word up” in urban slang.
meaning 2: how a milwaukeean says “threw that.”
meaning 3: an instruction given to a bike repairman concerning an out-of-alignment wheel.
1: ike: man, something smells bad in here!
mike: true dat! but he who smelled it ,dealt it.
2: dat pile of trash? i true dat in da garbage yesterday, hey.
3: pat:my bike wheel is a little bent!
matt: yeah, we can true dat. it’ll roll straight as an arrow.
a resort to a colloquilaism as a way of acknowledging someone’s point in web conversation in a friendly way. this avoids the ambiguous emotions of simply “true”, which can seem perfunctory or snide without hearing the tone of voice of the speaker.
joe: the u.s. did not even enter world war i until 1917.
fred: true dat.
another pointless wigga phrase that doesn’t even actually save you any time. saying ‘that’s true’ would take roughly 0.006 seconds longer and make you sound like far less of a wannabe gangster and allround loser. statistics have shown that the 93.1% of the parents of people who use this phrase work as investment bankers, and are most definately not of afro-caribbean descent.
whiteboy who thinks he’s black: yo homie, i be a mad fool fo tryin to sound ghetto when my parents be livin up in tha suburbs

his whiteboy mate: true dat. what the f-ck are we doing, who are we trying to impress.
an expression of enthusiastic agreement.
a: “this cat’s wrinkling up my fresh gear!”
b: “truedat!”
meaning:
a) to agree with
b) most definately
c) without a doubt
meaning a:
k: my momma hates it when you eat all our food and never stay at your house.
a: true dat.

meaning b:
k: are you sure you want to drive my brother’s car while he’s out of town on business?
a: true dat.

meaning c:
k: your grades are slipping because you stay high all the time!
a: true dat.