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Street Slang
who dat
· phrase · nola
NOLA rallying cry — now the Saints fans' battle hymn.
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Definitions
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The full chant — 'Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?' — shorthand for New Orleans Saints fandom and, more broadly, civic pride in the city itself.
“Who dat! Saints rolling into the Dome Sunday.”
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Generic 'who's that?' in Black Southern vernacular — a question you'd actually ask at the door before the football team made it a brand.
“Phone buzzing at 2am — who dat?”
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who dat In A Sentence
Who dat! Saints rolling into the Dome Sunday.
Phone buzzing at 2am — who dat?
Origin & Usage
Call-and-response trope traceable to 19th-century minstrel and vaudeville routines, recycled through Black Southern speech and adopted as the New Orleans Saints chant in the late 1970s/early 80s.
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