Roadman
Someone street-smart, always out and about, who knows how things really work on the ground — not a compliment or an insult on its own, just a description.
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How it's used
This is relationship vocabulary — how people in the GTA refer to friends, crews, and showing respect.
“He's a real roadman, knows everyone downtown.”
Where it comes from
Origin: UK street slang, widely adopted across 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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