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Definition: Originated from 'capture' and often used with '水' (water) referring to money, this is a code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to earning money in an easy way, which is often immoral or unethical.
Usage: E.g. 起條行人天橋都收幾十億，咁樣cap水好過去打劫銀行啦。(Building a pedestrian bridge can profit billions of dollars. Earning money in this way is even better than robbing a bank.)
Synonym: 捕捉、獲取
Reference: https://shyyp.net/hant/phrase/cap%E6%B0%B4
Definition: A code-mixing term used by the upper class Hong Kongers to refer to the espresso-based coffee made with steamed milk because the Cantonese equivalent '意大利泡沫咖啡' is too sophisticated to say.
Usage: E.g. A：我平時最鍾意飲意大利泡沫咖啡。香港人：你指cappucino?
Synonym: 意大利泡沫咖啡
Definition: A highly efficient code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use when they want to do a short summary of what happened in a period of time without sounding so repetitive, old school and verbose as '概括重述' denotes.
Usage: E.g. 不如我地一齊recap一下今個week做左咩？(What about doing a recap of what we did this week?)
Synonym: 概括重述
Reference: https://ezone.hk/article/20052634/香港職場中英夾雜用語-內地網民舉30個例子-表示識粵語都無法理解
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers as a trendier way to refer to artificial intelligence because it sounds more powerful like an entity that is capable of operating on its own rather than something that is just man-made as the Cantonese term denotes.
Usage: 上司：萬一發現AI可以取代你，高層要郁你我都保你唔住呀。你見我隻字不提你就好醒水啦，AI咁勁，分分鐘郁埋我㗎死仔 (Boss: In case people find out that AI can replace you, I can't protect you if the senior executives have to fire you. You see I am not mentioning anything to them so you better be smart. Since AI is so powerful, it might even fire me in a minute, you brat.)
Synonym: 人工智能
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/3874628/page/1
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone being a scapegoat or taking the blame for something that they did not do.
Usage: E.g. I did not cheat in the exam and you made me eat dead cat??!
Synonym: 食死貓
Reference: https://www.localiiz.com/post/culture-local-stories-popular-cantonese-idioms
Definition: Similar to the famous quote 'fake it till you make it', this is a code-mixing phrase used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to acting as if you are confident and capable until you achieve the results, except that it is full of bragging and shouting nonsense at a very high volume.
Usage: E.g. 無research就無insights，成班人喺度鳩嗌，彷彿嗌大聲啲就會突然make business sense。口號型經濟，大家一齊fake it till you fail it (Without research, there can be no insights. The whole group is shouting nonsense, as if shouting louder will suddenly make business sense. Slogan type economics, let's fake it till you fail it together.)
Synonym: 扮到失敗為止; 弄假成敗
Reference: https://www.threads.com/share/BAOhMEibQy/
