Link Up / Linking
To meet up or hang out with someone — in a romantic context, it can mean seeing or dating someone casually.
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How it's used
This is relationship vocabulary — how people in the GTA refer to friends, crews, and showing respect.
“Let's link up after work.”
Where it comes from
Origin: Caribbean/UK street slang, everyday GTA usage. It overlaps with UK street slang — multiethnolects like Toronto's Multicultural Toronto English and London's Multicultural London English share real linguistic DNA. More in our history page.
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.