Ahlie
A tag question meaning "right?" or "isn't that so?" — tacked onto the end of a statement to get agreement.
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How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“That game was cold, ahlie?”
Where it comes from
Origin: Jamaican Patois: "a lie". It's one of many Toronto terms that trace back to Jamaican Patois, brought into the city through Toronto's Caribbean communities. Read the fuller story in our history of Toronto slang.
Sources
This entry was compiled through general research into Toronto/GTA slang rather than one single citable source — see the full bibliography in SOURCES.md and the wider context in our history of Toronto slang.
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