Entry · catalog no. 7918
thot
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noun · Chicago, Midwest · 2026
✓ Verified
1.
A promiscuous woman — from "that ho over there." A pointed, often demeaning label; documented plainly here as it is used, charged weight and all.
“They tried to write her off as a thot.”
Origin & Attribution
Chicago drill scene of 2012, where it circulated among Chief Keef's GBE and was pushed into a trending topic online. First defined on Urban Dictionary in December 2012, it spread nationally from Chicago Black youth speech — an origin often lost when the word is treated as generic internet slang.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The Midwest
Chicago, Midwest · 2026
Spoken by
Chicago, Midwest
$THOTThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Know Your Meme, "thot" — reference · 2012
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+ Cite a sourceComplex, "Thot Topic" — article · 2014
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