For Tru
"For real" — used to confirm something is genuinely true.
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How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“He pulled up at 6am to help, for tru.”
Where it comes from
Origin: Street/hip-hop slang, common in the GTA. 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.