you knows it

interjection

Indicates agreement, approval, encouragement.

“What he did to her was wrong. —You knows it, sister!”

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Meanings

interjection
  1. dialectalidiomaticslangIndicates agreement, approval, encouragement.

    What he did to her was wrong. —You knows it, sister!

    3 more examples

    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

    Buster: (impressed) You'se a cool dude, Butch. / Butch: Hey, you knows it, baby.

    1984, Brian Richard Mori, Dreams of Flight, page 20

    We welcome you, you knows it. Didn't even need to ask, but it fine all right you did.

    2002, Lorian Hemingway, A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever, page 112

Origin

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.

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APA

you knows it. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20knows%20it

MLA

“you knows it.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20knows%20it. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “you knows it,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20knows%20it.

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