Chirping / Chirp
Trash talk — an insult or dig thrown at someone, especially rooted in Canadian hockey culture where players "chirp" opponents. In everyday Toronto speech it just means friendly (or not-so-friendly) roasting.
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How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“Stop chirping me, it's not that deep.”
Where it comes from
Origin: Canadian hockey/sports culture. It comes out of Canadian hockey culture rather than the city's immigrant-language history.
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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