What it means
Cap means a lie, a bit of fake talk, or something that’s not true. If someone’s capping, they’re chatting rubbish. No cap flips it round, like deadass, I’m being serious. Big in AAVE and hip-hop, then socials made it everyone’s favourite two syllables for calling nonsense fast, without writing a whole paragraph. You’ll hear it in the bodega line, on the train, everywhere.
Usage examples
"He told me he met Beyoncé at the Flatbush bodega. That’s cap. No cap, the clerk was deadass ready to ring up my sad little avocado."
"He swears he ran a five-minute mile in old work boots, but that is pure cap, I have seen him jog to catch the bus."
Where it comes from
From an old slang sense of capping as boasting or piling it on, a tall tale stacked too high. Hip-hop sharpened it into cap for a flat lie, with no cap as its honest opposite.
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