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とりま torima
For now, whatever — let's just start.
What does torima mean?
A squished-together とりあえず、まあ. It is how friends kick off a plan without committing to a single detail of it.
Example
とりま、駅前のカフェ集合でいい？
For now, let's just meet at the cafe by the station, yeah?
Vibe
Who you can say this to, and how it lands.
Friends only Casual. Natural with friends, out of place at work or with strangers.
The story behind torima
とりま squeezes とりあえず、まあ into two syllables, and it belongs to the great compression era of the late 2000s, when messages were thumbed out on phone keypads and every character saved was a character earned. It travelled from that world into Twitter and stayed.
What makes it useful is not the speed but the shrug built into it. とりま集合 proposes a meeting without proposing a plan, which lets a group start moving before anyone has to be the person with opinions. Older listeners hear only sloppiness. Younger speakers hear a very precise piece of diplomacy: we are doing something, do not ask me what yet.
Get torima in your pocket
とりま is one of 308 words in YABAI, a Japanese culture snack for Android. Every word comes with its meaning, an example sentence, a vibe check and a story like the one above — in 13 languages, read aloud by your device. Paid app: no ads, no sign-up, no subscription.
