no cap

No lie, seriously — from 'cap' meaning exaggeration, out of Atlanta and into every sentence by 2019. Dying since around 2022, when it appeared in a car advert, and now used mostly by people making fun of people who use it.

'Be fucking for real' — the reply to any claim too stupid to engage with, from 2022, and the record's entry for the acronym that is entirely a sigh.

Reclaimed from an insult into the highest available compliment for saying something unpopular without flinching.

Agreed, deal, okay — 'bet' — the one-syllable yes of the late 2010s, from AAVE into universal use, and the word teenagers say to parents when they mean 'fine' and want it to sound like a choice.

'Bro', flattened into a sound of disbelief — 'bruh' — which became a Vine sound in 2014, a whole genre of reaction ('bruh moment'), and the most-typed one-word reply of the late 2010s. The record's entry for the syllable that means 'I cannot believe you'.

A lie — 'that's cap' — and the 🧢 emoji for calling one, from Atlanta slang into everyone's mouth by 2020 and, with 'no cap', into every advert by 2022. The record's entry for the hat as a falsehood.

Seriously, genuinely, no joke — 'deadass, that happened' — from New York into the internet by 2016, and one of the few slang words of the 2010s that is still used sincerely without a wink. The record files it as a survivor.

'Facts' — agreement stated as a verdict — with 'big facts', 'straight facts' and 'facts, no printer' as its intensifiers, the last meaning the facts came straight from the source. The record's entry for truth as an interjection.