Peak
Something unfortunate, unfair or genuinely bad. "That's peak" means "that sucks."
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How it's used
This is the vocabulary for when something, or someone, isn't hitting right.
“Missed the last train by two minutes — that's peak.”
Where it comes from
Origin: UK-influenced street slang, common in the GTA. 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.
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