Periodt
what it means
An emphatic spelling of "period". The added T makes it stronger, and it's often stacked as "and that's on periodt".
End of discussion — added after a statement to say there's nothing left to argue.
the origin story
Black queer and drag culture, where "period" as a conversational full stop long predates the spelling. The "periodt" spelling spread through Black Twitter in the late 2010s.
The variant spelling is credited to City Girls and other Southern rap figures amplifying it, and it spread to TikTok in 2019-2020. It usually closes a statement of self-evident truth, which makes it a cousin of "and that's the tea".
in the wild
The first album is her best work, periodt.
No notes.
I'm not apologising for that.
And that's on periodt.
how to use it
- Closing a statement you consider undebatable
- Emphatic agreement
- Casual, expressive writing
- In an actual debate where you need to argue the point
- In formal writing
- Without awareness of its Black queer origins
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