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you knows it

you knows it interjection: indicates agreement, approval, encouragement.

Interjection

  1. (dialectal, idiomatic, slang) Indicates agreement, approval, encouragement.
    • What he did to her was wrong. —You knows it, sister!
    • Mose would ha rallied, ef eed a been in our ward — ha ! ha ! ha ! — you knows it, Mass Richard !1861, Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery, page 187

Origin of you knows it

This phrase was popularised by The GLC from Newport, Wales, but has had currency in US Afro-American vernacular English and possibly elsewhere since no later than the 1960s.

Questions about you knows it

What does you knows it mean?
You knows it means indicates agreement, approval, encouragement.
What part of speech is you knows it?
You knows it is an interjection.

Words near you knows it in the dictionary

  1. you know something
  2. you know what
  3. you know what I mean
  4. you know what I'm saying
  5. you know what they say
  6. you knows it
  7. you learn something new every day
  8. you lot
  9. you make the bed you lie in
  10. you man
  11. you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

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