No Cap
"No lie" — "cap" means a lie, so "no cap" means you're telling the truth.
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How it's used
This is conversational glue — words and tags that hold a sentence together in everyday GTA speech.
“That was the best show I've been to, no cap.”
Where it comes from
Origin: AAVE, widely used across the GTA. 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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