Brodie / Crodie
Brother, friend, day-one. Popularized by Toronto rap and now used well outside music circles.
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How it's used
This is relationship vocabulary — how people in the GTA refer to friends, crews, and showing respect.
“Good looks, brodie, appreciate you.”
Where it comes from
Origin: Popularized in Toronto rap. It's tied to Toronto's music and sports culture more than to a specific immigrant-language root — see our "from the block to global" section for how that side of Toronto slang spread.
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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