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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone at work (professional office setting) asked me what "no cap" meant...

And before I knew what was happening I was 5 minutes deep talking about shooting guns randomly out windows.

I don't know why more etymology nerds aren't interested in slang it's all the cool shit about language evolving except its happening like 10-100x as fast as formal language evolves.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

what "no cap" meant

"a bus ticket for a window tasting"

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

No cap just means your bottle is going to spill