phrase🔥 Gen-Z slang

no cap

no lie, for real

What it means

"No cap" means "no lie" or "for real" — you're being completely honest. Here "cap" means a lie, so "no cap" stresses that you're telling the truth. The flip side is "that's cap," used to call out something as a lie, often with the 🧢 emoji.

Examples

  • That was the best burger I've ever had, no cap.
  • No cap, I studied for ten minutes and somehow passed.
  • He said he ran a marathon yesterday — that's cap. 🧢
  • I'm going to get an A this semester, no cap.

Where it comes from

"Cap" as slang for a lie traces back to early Black American English. "No cap" spread widely through Atlanta hip-hop in the late 2010s and then became a TikTok staple.

Related slang

#rizz#delulu

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