Nize
To be quiet or stop talking — an imperative, usually heard as "nize that" or "nize your beaks" (beaks meaning mouths).
Advertisement
How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“Nize your beaks, the movie's starting.”
Where it comes from
Origin: GTA slang, pronounced like "nice" with a Z. 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.
This word is a possible Torontle answer — the Wordle-style game built from this dictionary.
Play Torontle →