Dry
Blunt, unenthusiastic or straight-up boring — describing a person's response or a whole situation with no energy to it.
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How it's used
This is the vocabulary for when something, or someone, isn't hitting right.
“He gave a dry reply, didn't even ask how I was.”
Where it comes from
Origin: GTA street slang. Like a lot of GTA slang, its exact origin is debated even among people who use it every day — see our full history of Toronto slang for the bigger picture on how this vocabulary formed.
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.