CULTURETECHLENSand that's on period
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Combined Graph record U-00895 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0495. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Dictionary.com, 'periodt' (Jan 27, 2020): periodt is 'an interjection used to signal the end of a discussion or to emphasize a point', occurring 'in the phrase (and) that's on periodt', which is 'a comment used to emphasize a preceding statement… 'You better believe it''; periodt is 'generally credited to Black English' and 'specifically attributed to Southern Black gay slang'; it spread through the 2010s, helped by City Girls' 2018 song 'Period (We Live)', which popularized both the 'periodt' and 'period' spellings.
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Dictionary.com, 'periodt' (Jan 27, 2020): periodt is 'an interjection used to signal the end of a discussion or to emphasize a point', occurring 'in the phrase (and) that's on periodt', which is 'a comment used to emphasize a preceding statement… 'You better believe it''; periodt is 'generally credited to Black English' and 'specifically attributed to Southern Black gay slang'; it spread through the 2010s, helped by City Girls' 2018 song 'Period (We Live)', which popularized both the 'periodt' and 'period'
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Dictionary.com, 'periodt' (Jan 27, 2020): periodt is 'an interjection used to signal the end of a discussion or to emphasize a point', occurring 'in the phrase (and) that's on periodt', which is 'a comment used to emphasize a preceding statement… 'You better believe it''; periodt is 'generally credited to Black English' and 'specifically attributed to Southern Black gay slang'; it spread through the 2010s, helped by City Girls' 2018 song 'Period (We Live)', which popularized both the 'periodt' and 'period' spellings.
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