Mexican Slang Flashcards
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aguas / echar aguas
watch out / be on the look out (lit.: waters)
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andar de piruja / pirujo
engage in slutty behavior, moderately vulgar
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andar pedo
to be drunk, moderately vulgar
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andar tomado
to be drunk
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apachurro
sexually attractive male or female (lit.: to flatten)
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una apretada
frigid or uptight girl (lit.: tightly gripped, derogatory)
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un apretado
pennypincher / cheap (lit.: tightly gripped)
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la ara�a
female pubic area (lit.: spider)
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una ballena
beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: whale)
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la banda
group of friends
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los barros
pesos (lit.: clay)
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bobo
foolish; stupid
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la bola
a group of people, esp. friends (lit.: a ball)
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buena onda
good vibes; good feelings (lit.: good wave)
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las bubis
breasts (lit.: Spanglish phoneticization of ‘boobies’)
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un caballo
female sanitary napkin (lit.: horse)
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un cabr�n
bastard / SOB / bad ass (lit.: male goat), moderately vulgar
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esta cabr�n
a tough situation, moderately vulgar
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cachonda / cachondo
horny; passionate (lit.: in heat), moderately vulgar
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cagar
to sh*t, moderately vulgar
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una caguama
beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: a species of large sea turtle)
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caliente
horny (lit.: hot)
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una carabina
a syringe (lit.: a type of cannon)
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carnal
close friend; a close relative (lit.: flesh)
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la casa chica
a love nest; the house your mistress lives in (lit.: little house)
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chaca chaca
to have sex; a quickie
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chafa
cheap; low quality
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chale!
calm down; you’re kidding etc.
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una chamaca / un chamaco
child; young person; teen
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chance
opportunity; perhaps (lit.: Spanglish, chance)
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el chango
a mix of heroin and cocaine (lit. monkey)
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chaquetear
to masturbate, moderately vulgar
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una chava / un chavo
girl / boy
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una chela
beer
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el chemo
glue (sniffing)
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las chichis
breasts
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chido
cool; good; high quality
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chiflado / chiflada
crazy; nutcase
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el chile
penis (lit. chili pepper)
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un chilpayate
a boy; a young man; a teen
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un chimuelo / una chimuela
a person missing front teeth
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chingar
to screw up; to f*ck up, vulgar
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chin!
oops; darn (lit. short for chingada), slightly vulgar
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chinga tu madre
go f*ck your mother, extremely vulgar
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la chingada
extremely bad, vulgar
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chingando
to pester; to f*ck with, vulgar
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un chingo
a large amount, moderately vulgar
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chipichipi
continous rainy drizzle; fussy, whiny behavior of a child
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el chisme
gossip
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una chismosa / un chismoso
a person who gossips
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la chiva
heroin (lit. female goat)
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chiviar
to feel embarrassment
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el choco
glue (sniffing) (lit. short for chocolate)
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chocoso
disagreeable (lit.: from chocar, to hit)
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los chones
women’s underwear
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el chorillo
diarrhea (lit.: spurt)
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el chorro
diarrhea (lit.: torrent)
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la chota
police
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chula / chulo
attractive person
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un chuntara
a person displaying vulgar taste
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chupar
to suck; to drink, esp. alcohol, moderately vulgar
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un churro
marijuana cigarette / joint (lit.: traditional cylindrically shaped donut)
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codo
to be cheap (lit.: elbow)
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coger
to have sex (lit.: to grab something), vulgar
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una cogida
the sex act; a f*ck (lit.: to be gored by a bull’s horn), vulgar
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como chingas!
what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
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como friegas!
what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
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como jodes!
what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
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la concha
vagina (lit.: conch shell), vulgar
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una congal
whorehouse; a bar where prostitutes work
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cortar
to break up (a relationship) (lit.: to cut)
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crudo
to have a hangover (lit.: raw)
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cual es tu pinche pedo?
what’s your f*cking problem?, vulgar
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cuate
friend; buddy (lit.: non-identical twin)
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un cuerno de chivo
a machine gun (lit.: a goat horn)
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culear
to have sex (lit. to use your ass), vulgar
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un culera / una culero
asshole, vulgar
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culo
ass; cheap, syn. with “codo”, moderately vulgar
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dar lata
to pester; to be bothersome (lit.: to give tin - instead of gold)
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descarado
shameless
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un desmadre
a disaster / a mess (lit.: to be motherless), vulgar
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desquintar
to lose virginity
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echale ganas!
make a good effort
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echar un palo
to have sex (lit.: to take do a stick), vulgar
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empinado
sex “doggy” style
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enchufar
‘hook up’; to have sex (lit.: to plug in)
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un escuincle
a bratty kid (lit.: a demon)
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esta canijo
a difficult situation
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esta cuero
good (lit.: skin)
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esta perron
the best; the coolest (lit.: big dog)
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la feria
change; coins; money
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una fichera
a woman earning in a bar with ‘ladies drinks’ (lit.: from ficha, a token)
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la flojera
laziness (lit.: looseness)
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floja / flojo
lazy (lit.: loose)
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fregado
ruined; destroyed; f*cked, moderately vulgar
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fregar
to cause harm to someone; to f*ck someone up, moderately vulgar
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frenos
dental braces (lit.: brakes)
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fresa
spoiled; a pampered person (lit.: strawberry, mildly derogatory)
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fuego
matches; lighter (lit.: fire)
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gacho
unpleasant; ugly (lit.: a cow with down-turned horns)
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ganas
desire; horny
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un g�ey
an idiot; a fool (lit.: a steer), moderately vulgar
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una golfa
a slut; a prostitute
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una gorro
a condom (lit.: a hat)
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gu�cala!
an expression of disgust; yuck
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guacarear
to vomit
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guango
wide; loose
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una guera / un guero
a blonde; a person with a light complexion
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hacer chis
to urinate
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hacer pu�eta
to masturbate; to wank (lit.: to make a fist), vulgar
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hasta la chingada
to the end of patience; very far away, vulgar
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la hierba
marijuana (lit.: weed)
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hijo de perra
son of a bitch (lit.: son of a female dog), vulgar
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hijo de puta
son of a bitch (lit.: son of a whore), extremely vulgar
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hijo de tu pinche madre
son of a bitch (lit.: son of your cursed mother), vulgar
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hijo jesu!
jesus h. christ (lit.: baby jesus)
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hijole!
oh my gosh!
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un huelepedos
a follower not a leader (lit.: a fart smeller), moderately vulgar
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una huerca / un huerco
girl / boy
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hueva
laziness
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a huevo
of course
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un huev�n / una huevona
lazy person / layabout (derogatory)
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los huevos
testicles (lit.: eggs)
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una huila / un huilo
a slut; a prostitute
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una interesada / un interesado
a gold digger (lit: someone with interest)
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jale
work; job (lit.: pull)
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mi jefa / mi jefe
my mom / my dad (lit.: my boss)
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joder
to have sex, vulgar
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esta jodido!
it’s f*cked!, vulgar
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un joto
homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
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un lameculos
a brown noser (lit.: an ass licker), vulgar
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la lana
money (lit.: wool)
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la leche
sperm (lit.: milk)
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la ley
police (lit.: the law)
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los limones, limoncitas
small breasts (lit.: limes)
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latoso
bothersome; a pest (lit.: tinny)
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una machorra
lesbian (lit.: a sterile female animal, derogatory)
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un madrazo
a beating, to beat the sh*t out of, moderately vulgar
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madre
negative adjective (lit.: mother), moderately to extremely vulgar
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madrear
beat the stuffing out of someone, moderately vulgar
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mala muerte
a place of ill repute
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un malandro
a criminal / a good-for-nothing
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mamacita
attractive woman (lit.: little mother)
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una mamada
oral sex, especially to a male (lit.: a suck), vulgar
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mamadas
bullsh*t (lit.: suckling), moderately vulgar
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mamey
sexually attractive male (lit.: a tropical fruit)
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un mam�n
a snob; stuck-up (lit.: a sucker), moderately vulgar
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‘mano
brother (lit.: short for hermano, brother)
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un marica
homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
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un maric�n
homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
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una marimacha
tomboy; butch; lesbian (derogatory)
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mear
to urinate
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me vale madre!
I don’t give a sh*t, (lit.: I don’t value it), vulgar
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los mecos
semen, vulgar
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m�ndigo
emphatic negative adjective similar to darn (lit.: beggarly)
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menso
fool; idiot
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metiche
nosy
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mi hija / mi hijo
my daughter / my son
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mi vieja / mi viejo
my old lady / my old man
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una mocosa / un mocoso
a snot-nosed kid
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un mont�n
a large quantity (lit.: a mountain)
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una mora / un moro
girl / boy; young person (lit.: Moor)
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la morralla
coins; small change
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la mota
marijuana
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una muchacha / un muchacho
girl / boy; young person
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una naca / un naco
a vulgar person; in poor taste, moderately vulgar
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un narco
a drug dealer (lit.: short for narcotraficante)
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la nave
car (lit.: ship)
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nena / nene
baby (term of affectionate)
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ni modo
‘tough luck’; it can’t be helped (lit.: in no fashion)
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no hay bronca
there’s no problem
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no hay pedo
there’s no problem, moderately vulgar
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no manches!
you’re kidding / no way (lit: don’t stain)
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no mames!
you’re kidding / no way (lit: don’t suck me), moderately vulgar
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no me das lata!
don’t bother me (lit.: don’t give me tin)
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un ojete
asshole (lit.: eyelet), vulgar
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pacheco
stoned; high on marijuana
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pagar con cuerpom�tico
pay a debt with sex (lit.: pun on body and ATM)
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un p�jaro
an erect penis (lit.: a bird), moderately vulgar
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un pandillero
gang member
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la panocha
a vagina (lit.: an ear of corn), moderately vulgar
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panzona
pregnant (lit.: big bellied)
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un papacito
attractive man (lit.: little father)
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de parranda
bar hopping; pubcrawl
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el pase
cocaine (lit. a pass)
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la patrulla
police (lit.: patrol)
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payaso
foolish; idiot (lit.: clown)
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un pedo
fart; drunkenness, moderately vulgar
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un pelado / una pelada
a rude person; poor manners (lit.: peeled)
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las pelotas
testicles (lit.: balls)
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una pendeja / un pendejo
a f*cking idiot; a cuckold, vulgar
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peque�a
a little girl; a ‘shorty’ (lit.: something small)
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la piedra
crack cocaine (lit. rock)
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pinche
damn, moderately vulgar
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una piruja / un pirujo
a slut; a prostitute, moderately vulgar
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el pito
penis (lit.: pipe whistle), moderately vulgar
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una pollita
sexually attractive young woman (lit.: chick)
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las pompis
butt
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poner los cuernos
to cheat on one’s spouse (lit. to put on the horns)
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un preservativo
condom (lit.: preservative)
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una prosti
prostitute; a slut (lit.: short for prostituta)
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un pu�al
a homosexual (lit.: a dagger, derogatory), moderately vulgar
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una puta
prostitute (derogatory), vulgar
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un putazo
a beating, to beat the sh*t out of, moderately vulgar
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un puto
male prostitute or homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
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una querida / un querido
a lover (lit.: a cherished one)
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que b�rbaro!
how barbaric!
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que chido!
super; first class, etc.
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que honda?
what’s up? (lit.: what wave)
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que hubo?
what’s up?
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que padre!
how wonderful!
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que pedo?
what’s up?, moderately vulgar
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que pex?
what’s up?
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que tal?
what’s up?
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quinta
female virgin
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un rabo verde
a dirty old man (lit.: refers to an onion, green stalk with white ‘whiskers’)
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ramera
a prostitute, vulgar
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rayado
bad reputation (lit.: scratched)
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un rayd
a ride (lit.: Spanglish phonetic adaptation of ride)
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re
prefix used for emphasis ex: rechafa, reputa
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resaca
a hangover (lit.: tide)
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riata
penis (lit.: lasso, lariat)
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sacado de onda
to be put in a bad mood (lit.: taken out of the wave)
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salado
embittered (lit.: salty)
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sangr�n
hateful
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una santarona
a virginal woman; a frigid woman (lit.: a big saint)
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un sics
a 6-pack of beer, (lit. Spanglish, six-pack)
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la soda
cocaine (lit. Spanglish, soda pop)
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suelta
a police informant; a ‘snitch’ (lit. loose)
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una tacha
any illegal drug in pill form
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talonear
to scratch out a living, esp. to work as a prostitute (lit.: to claw), vulgar
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tecata
an intravenous drug user
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un tipo
a guy; a ‘fella’ (lit.: a type)
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toda madre
all out; full throttle, moderately vulgar
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una tortillera
a lesbian lit.: a tortilla maker, derogatory)
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traquetear
to have sex (lit.: to rattle)
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travieso
naughty
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turulato
drugged or drunk into near unconsciousness
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la verga
penis (lit.: ship’s mast), vulgar
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vete a la chingada!
go f*ck yourself, extremely vulgar
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vete a la verga!
go to hell; go f*ck yourself (lit.: go to the ship’s mast, slang for penis), vulgar
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vete al carajo!
go to hell; go f*ck yourself (lit.: go to the penis), vulgar