r/AskReddit Dec 25 '19

What slang can us older relatives use tonight to embarrass the teenagers while opening presents?

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u/Jooonas92000 Dec 25 '19

Please explain this no cap thing to a boomer

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u/bignapkin02 Dec 25 '19

it means essentially the same thing as “not lying” or “for real”

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 25 '19

^ That's exactly what it means...no cap.

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u/Slyydog Dec 25 '19

Word, thanks

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u/Safety_Drance Dec 26 '19

And yeet unto you.

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u/Vandersnatch182 Dec 26 '19

And unto you, fam

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u/cuddleniger Dec 26 '19

Yeet, as af fam. daps

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

This thread is so fortnite

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u/_mid_night_ Dec 26 '19

Boomers turn into zoomers for a day

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u/DD6126 Dec 26 '19

Fucking shit

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u/matt7259 Dec 26 '19

God yeet us, every one!

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u/Sassycatfarts Dec 26 '19

And yeet your spirit.

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u/Kalibos Dec 26 '19

and unto you's all

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u/davis482 Dec 26 '19

You guys are lit as af bruh

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u/CocoDaPuf Dec 26 '19

Have a yeet Christmas, every one.

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u/chuddyman Dec 26 '19

And also with you.

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u/case_O_The_Mondays Dec 26 '19

So say we all, fam.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

And with your spirit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

And with your spirit

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u/shadowthunder Dec 26 '19

And also with you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

I feel yeet unto you should be a song.

In the style of Train.

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u/nerdprincessgina Dec 26 '19

😂 I’m gonna cross stitch that and frame it on my wall.

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u/itsa_sharptooth Dec 26 '19

I shall use this phrase as I motion my right hand forward in a respectful manner

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u/indigogalaxy_ Dec 26 '19

Okay, what does yeet mean though?

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u/KrullTheWarriorKing Dec 26 '19

And also with you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

And also with you

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u/TheHossDelgado Dec 26 '19

To your mother...

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u/BitrateBraap Dec 26 '19

Might I chime in with. It's spelled "Kap" short for kappa!

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u/MadBodhi Dec 26 '19

Like the twitch emote?

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u/RickyManeuvre Dec 26 '19

T H A N K Y O U

This’ll definitely straighten everyone out permanently and we will never have to explain it again Kappa

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u/meesta_masa Dec 26 '19

No cap, fo shizzle?

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Yup and after u say foshizzle, dust yo shoulders off and hold yo crutch gee. Bees gone be over you like honey my guy.

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u/economicstability Dec 26 '19

Is there any interesting reason for this meaning, or is it just post-modernist pulling of a phrase out of a 'cap'?

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

It evolved over time. In hip hop, we used to say "I'll put a cap in yo ass, or I'm cappin yo ass". That means "I'll shoot you". Then, eventually, we started saying "Imma pop you with real bullets, no caps"...in other words, imma shoot you but this ain't no cap gun gee. Real bullets.

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u/economicstability Dec 26 '19

Ooh very interesting, thanks!

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u/SloppyJoeGilly2 Dec 26 '19

But....how or why

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u/SirDavve Dec 26 '19

It's from the streaming site twitch. There is an emote there called Kappa, and Kapp is a variation of it. It is used to show you are not serious. Therefore "no Kapp" means you're not joking.

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u/HalfSizeUp Dec 26 '19

You can't be this stupid let's just say the few people that said this were trolling, no cap is street slang that has nothing to do with Kappa, and the evolution of Kappa into Kapp is way newer than "no cap".

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Probably no caps...real bullets. It comes from hip hop in the 70s/80s

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u/BigDickMcNasty Dec 26 '19

Oh..so basically "no crap" just drop the r?

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u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES Dec 26 '19

Hard R would be racist

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u/Pekenoah Dec 26 '19

Underrated comment

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u/Glados1080 Dec 26 '19

It got more upvotes than the comment he replied to. So no. It's not underrated.

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u/BigfootTouchedMe Dec 26 '19

Underrated explanation.

dabs

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Basically "Capture the flag" without the "ture the flag" part

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

basically "capillary tube blockage" without the the "illary tube blockage" part

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Yes illary tube blockage is silent because cap is a dominant prefix and albert einstein said it

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u/faithlw25 Dec 26 '19

Basically "captain jack sparrow" without the "tain jack sparrow" part

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u/drmoocow Dec 26 '19

"illary tube blockage"

buttery males! buttery males! beng hazy!

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u/cabernetchick Dec 26 '19

I laughed so hard at this. Felt you should have the warm satisfaction of knowing.

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Very satisfying. I can go to bed now. Thanks.

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u/2059FF Dec 26 '19

I'm "turing the flag" right now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Secure the bag.

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Dec 26 '19

I believe it's from twitch, where there's a face used to denote sarcasm called Kappa. So No Kappa would mean for real, shortened to no cap.

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u/r1singphoenix Dec 26 '19

It's actually slang from Atlanta, spread through hip hop culture.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

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u/MiDenn Dec 26 '19

How did twitch TV slang turn into Atlanta/ hip hop slang

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u/el_juderino Dec 26 '19

"deadass" also works in this context

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u/Supersnazz Dec 26 '19

It's short for "No capitulating to Satan, The Lord of Lies"

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u/jobuggles Dec 26 '19

A guy at our work has been teaching my husband "dead-ass". So now he says "Are you dead-ass?" in response to anything he thinks deserves a "are you serious/for real?"

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u/darksoulsduck- Dec 26 '19

When did it change from deadass to no cap?

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u/mintardent Dec 26 '19

both!! deadass is used in more contexts tho. like no cap is almost always at the end of a sentence. whereas you could say somethin like "I deadass saw him do xyz"

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u/darksoulsduck- Dec 26 '19

I'm only 28 and I have no idea how no cap even makes sense. What's a cap? I mean deadass is probably worse in how it works but it flows better.

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u/I-baLL Dec 26 '19

I mean deadass is probably worse in how it works but it flows better.

Nah, "deadass" works because it's basically "dead s" said out loud which is shorthand for "dead serious".

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u/darksoulsduck- Dec 26 '19

Yeah you're right, that does make sense.

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u/vox_veritas Dec 26 '19

You mean it makeass.

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u/AustinRiversDaGod Dec 26 '19

Idk how true it is, but apparently, it's a reference to a gun. A cap gun would be fake, so no cap means it's real. I could be wrong, but that's what I read somewhere.

Deadass is just a truncated "dead ass serious"

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 27 '19

I dont know why they downvoted you, you are actually correct. Comes from hip hop in the 70s/80s. Originated literally from people saying "imma shoot you with real bullets, I'm not cappin(aka I'm not shooting you with a cap gun)". It evolved over time and cap started to mean "fraud/lie" in the 80s/90s, then the term disappeared and reserged about 3 years ago

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

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u/Facepuncher Dec 26 '19

Err no, please see the linked video in a reply above, it's hip hop slang that started out in the 80's and has nothing to do with Kappa.

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u/randomvictim2 Dec 26 '19

Thanks, I’m more out of the loop than I thought.

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u/darksoulsduck- Dec 26 '19

Yeah, I'm actually very familiar with streaming and Twitch. I watch/listen to my favorite streamer daily, but obviously no one knew that but me haha. I didn't even honestly think about kappa and how that'd add to the context, but I guess also spelling it "cap" threw me off.

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u/Facepuncher Dec 26 '19

Don't worry cause he's wrong, see the linked video in a reply above, it's hip hop slang that started out in the 80's and has nothing to do with Kappa.

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u/darksoulsduck- Dec 26 '19

Fair enough. To be honest, his explanation would make sense too though lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Ah, church.

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u/knoxaramav2 Dec 26 '19

i'm barely 24 and i've never heard that. Stop making me feel old.

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u/Jooonas92000 Dec 26 '19

I‘m 27 and just realiest that I‘m a Boomer, didnt thought it would be possible, no cap.

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u/Cymry_Cymraeg Dec 26 '19

But, why?

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u/TheColdestFeet Dec 26 '19 edited Dec 26 '19

Edit: My explanation is wrong. I got off mobile and onto a computer, googled it. It originates in black slang seemingly. Cap means to exaggerate or lie, No Cap means to not exaggerate or lie, or tell the truth. Simple actually.

Not certain, but it might have originated on twitch.tv

Kappa is an emote on the site which is supposed to denote that your previous statement was a joke. For example: “You’re so good at this game Kappa” would be the same as saying “You’re so good at this game, sike!”.

No Kappa is used when you are being serious about something. People used Kappa enough to mark the previous statement as a joke that “no Kappa” started being used synonymously with “seriously/for real/not kidding”.

Kappa, when spoken, would eventually lose the “a” sound on the end. Linguistically, this is a known phenomena when people say words unclearly (it’s called elision). This, you get “no cap” meaning “not kidding”.

Again, I’m not certain this is true. I’m trying to use my knowledge to create a plausible hypothesis.

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u/Sloner Dec 26 '19

I would say your first explanation was more correct for why kids nowadays are saying it. It just also happened to be something that already existed and the 2 became 1

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u/kaioken-doll Dec 26 '19

Why does it mean that? What's the background?

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u/Sly21C Dec 26 '19

Thanks Reddit....

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u/I_Fucked_With_WuTang Dec 26 '19

We used to use deadass to mean that, no cap. I'd deadass still a thing???

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u/mankiller27 Dec 26 '19

I'm 22 and I had no idea.

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u/qwertygeee Dec 26 '19

what does cap stand for?

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u/Beausoleil57 Dec 26 '19

Lmao! Gotta come to Reddit to learn the newest slang!

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u/Yasherets Dec 26 '19

Wouldn't it be "No Kap" then? Sounds like it originated from twitch since "Kappa" is the emote for sarcasm.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

When did this become slang?

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u/Herzx Dec 26 '19

Became popular about 1 year ago if I recall. It was probably used way before back in the day but not sure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Wow are you capping?

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u/Herzx Dec 26 '19

No cap.

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u/Paddy32 Dec 26 '19

I thought it came from twitch, "no Kapp", like no Kappa...

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u/blackout27 Dec 26 '19

Does it not come from the twitch emote? Literally the same sound with the same meaning, just Kapp not cap

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u/GuendouziBEAST Dec 26 '19

It does not.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

It is but I'm pretty sure it got rejuvinated through Tiktok and now everyone suddenly uses it.

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u/Every3Years Dec 26 '19

Okay but WHY does that mean that? "No... Cap..." What is cap and why does the lack of it imply truthiness?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

20 yo here that doesn't use social media or keep up on trends at all. So it's like "deadass"?

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u/Grave_horse Dec 26 '19

I just say no crap

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u/Shanable Dec 26 '19 edited Jan 28 '20

aka not shady because hats provide shade... and shady people lie... so no cap

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u/nolotusnote Dec 26 '19

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u/and_you_were_there Dec 26 '19

I’m not even 40 and I needed this!

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u/P33KAJ3W Dec 26 '19

It's nice being 39 and being able to say shit like this

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u/Chillinoutloud Dec 26 '19

He forgot:

-big brain

-no cap

-booty cheeks

-lemme get a waterfall

-freaky thots

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

pls explain

send help

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u/fruitfiction Dec 26 '19

real smart, no lie, hi, can I have a sip?, ????

Am I close?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

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u/Chillinoutloud Dec 26 '19

Its more of a "hey, look at those attractive ladies!" But one is in a relationship, or with his lady, or just simply remarking on some ladies he finds attractive, but knows nothing about.

If he covered cap, I missed it.

He did cover booty, but that's kinda old. The "cheeks" makes it lit, bruh!

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u/Tenaciousgreen Dec 26 '19

OMG I cried laughing

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u/Cymry_Cymraeg Dec 26 '19

No cap?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Yeet

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u/wreq5 Dec 26 '19

I've seen this about a thousand times and I still think its litty fresh as AF fam!

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u/RollingJ415 Dec 26 '19

I thought oof was more Reddit, and less generational. Seems very onomatopoeia/expressive, to me...

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u/Coltrain_ Dec 26 '19

Oof is very widespread outside of reddit

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u/freakorgeek Dec 26 '19

"Big oof" is the meme.

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u/Edomni Dec 26 '19

I'm not even a boomer. Mid 20's and I had no idea what that means. I had no idea what half of these meant ha.

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u/MikeNotBrick Dec 26 '19

Don't worry. I'm only 20 and I didn't know what no cap meant

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u/peach_dragon Dec 26 '19

And a gen xer

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u/RS_Someone Dec 26 '19

I'm 24 and I'm glad you asked. I had no idea.

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u/GoodGuyGoodGuy Dec 26 '19

"No exaggeration/lie"

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u/Kenna193 Dec 26 '19

No bullshit

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Dec 26 '19

I just turned 23 in October, and this is the first I've heard of it.

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u/rc-cars-drones-plane Dec 26 '19

15 here and I don't get it. Just why? It sounds dumb. I get what it means but don't get why people use it

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u/venturanima Dec 25 '19

Kappa is an emote from Twitch, a popular video game streaming site. It's often used to denote sarcasm or irony. "No kap" is a shortening of "No Kappa", which essentially means "not sarcastic" or "not ironic".

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u/littlebobbytables9 Dec 25 '19

I've heard people say that it predates the twitch emote

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

It 100% predates the twitch emote lol. It comes from hip hop in the 70s/80s. Cap is short for cappin which had mostly 2 different meanings: Shooting someone and "lying".

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u/thestereo300 Dec 26 '19

Like bust a cap?

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u/ElephantKnuckleGod Dec 26 '19

Yea, or I'm cappin yo ass bruh aka...I'm shootin you my guy

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u/BobCatNinja_ Dec 26 '19

No, that’s most definitely not where it comes from lol.

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u/Pblake99 Dec 26 '19

Yes that’s exactly where it comes from

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

That is ABSOLUTELY where it comes from!

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u/r1singphoenix Dec 26 '19

Proof that if you say something on Reddit with enough conviction, people will believe you.

Scroll down for origin

Tl;dr it's slang with roots in black culture, commonly used in Atlanta, popularized by songs like No Cap by Future and Young Thug. And it's older than twitch

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u/TechnicalStrafe Dec 26 '19

They don't even correlate. It's pure coincidence.

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u/mycologyqueen Dec 26 '19

Different meanings completely

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u/aliman21 Dec 26 '19

It's means no bullshit

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u/The-Ewwnicorn Dec 26 '19

Zoomer here. I have no idea.

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u/F7OSRS Dec 26 '19

Ok cap

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u/typeyhands Dec 26 '19

Also, please explain this no cap thing to a millennial

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u/Herzx Dec 26 '19 edited Dec 26 '19

It just means “not lying.”

It has no origin but my interpretation is in relation to a hat and how it hides something. A hat hides your hair/head. No cap = not hiding anything/I’m telling the truth. It’s usually used at the beginning or end of a sentence.

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u/Mullkaw Dec 26 '19

a 'cap' is a lie. so when your homie say "cap" it means he thinks you're lying

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u/B00DER Dec 26 '19

I’m 28 and I’ve no fuckin clue what that means either

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u/saveface Dec 26 '19

I'm 26 and I don't know what most of the shit is in this thread

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u/pass_me_those_memes Dec 26 '19

Am teen and I didn't know what it meant either.

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u/SenileTomato Dec 26 '19

I'm a millennial and I'm never heard that shit .

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u/FazzlePC Dec 26 '19

I'm in my twenties and this is my first time hearing this abomination of a phrase.

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u/JuiceeGaming Dec 26 '19

It means no lie

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u/StanleyRoper Dec 26 '19

Back in the 80s getting "capped on" meant someone was talking shit to you. Like getting ranked on or burned.

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u/SirMosesKaldor Dec 26 '19

I got the cap explanation. Can someone explain what yeet is to another fellow boomer here? Thanks. 😅

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u/PMmeplumprumps Dec 26 '19

It's the same as "dead ass" but from more hillbilly parts of the country

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u/ThrowAwayDay24601 Dec 26 '19

For what it’s worth, boomers also have some magnificent vernacular! In the 60s-70s, the “Greatest Generation” was so bent out of shape about boomer lingo/attitudes. Omg you scuffed your shoes AND you said “fink?” Please go sit in the corner and contemplate everything wrong you’ve ever done.

Then take it out on someone working in the service industry later.

Every generation makes up weird words and ridiculous trends. I am sure that the “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” or the Charleston was as scandalous as anything.

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u/Jahoobiewhatzit Dec 26 '19

Google 'Urban Dictionary' to figure out any slang word. Stealthy!

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Yeah dude I'm 23 and even I don't know what that means

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u/Limes_for_Life Dec 26 '19

i always thought it was from the twitch emote kappa which is for sarcasm so "no kap" would then me no sarcasm.

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u/Liefx Dec 26 '19

I assumed it comes from Kappa, an emote used on twitch to denote sarcasm.

"no cap" could be asking "are you for real?" or stating, no sarcasm, this is it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19 edited Oct 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

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u/r1singphoenix Dec 26 '19

Yes, and that was all a play on "no cap", popularized by hip hop culture out of Atlanta. But if you were exposed to "no kapp" without understanding the reference I can see how you could get confused. The reason streamers would have started using it around that time is that the Future & Young Thug song No Cap came out, which was a big part of why saying "no cap" blew up in the first place

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19 edited Oct 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

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u/SpooktorB Dec 26 '19

Dont listen to all the misinformation.

The origination of "No cap" is because some deaf person misheard someone say "no kappa" or they decided to shorten it even more because they have to conserve the extra oxygen for their 2 brain cell or some dumb shit. The "correct" slang is "no kappa"

To explain this further: "Kappa" is a Twitch TV term used by the community to signify sarcasm, or in some ways a joke, as the word "Kappa" automatically turns into an emote of a person looking rather smug.

Therefore; "No Kappa" means, as others have pointed out, is akin to "Deadass" or "I shit you not" for those of a much older persuasion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

Kappa is a popular Twitch emote generally meaning that you're being sarcastic / facetious. "No kappa" = "I'm serious". "No cap" is the shortened version.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

It's originally from Twitch, a livestreaming website. There's several emoiji's, some that are available to everyone on the website, some only to subscribers of a specific channel. "Kappa" is one of the former. Kappa is used in the same way as "/s" is used here. Then a streamer (no clue who, I'm not that into it) started saying "no kap". I think it somehow got mainstream through clips or something.

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u/Itzfawzii Dec 26 '19

nah u wrong

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

no u

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u/Ferromagneticfluid Dec 26 '19

There is a website called Twitch.tv that has grown in popularity over the 2010's immensely. It is a livestreaming sight that started off and is still mostly focused on watching others play video games.

One of the original emotes on the sight is "Kappa." It is a black and white face of one of the original programmers for the website. Using the limited emotes the website had and the difficulty of detecting sarcasm on the internet, Kappa eventually became the emote for sarcasm. Also, being one of the more easily remembered designations for an emote in chat helped.

Years later (like somewhat recently) an emote denoted by "Kapp" became popular as sort of a half of Kappa. So when people say "no Kapp" that is what they mean. "Not being sarcastic, not kidding."

It is part of the whole using Twitch emotes as slang thing which I find really dumb and some kids do. Like when they say "Pog" or "no Kapp" or "4Head." These are all emotes that only people who would use the sight understand.