Hooooly
A drawn-out exclamation for when something needs a reaction — shock, disbelief, or someone getting on your nerves.
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How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“Hooooly, did you see that?”
Where it comes from
Origin: 6ix-specific exclamation, per local slang guides. 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.
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