Mexican Slang: A-C Flashcards
watch out / be on the look out (lit.: waters)
aguas / echar aguas
engage in slutty behavior, moderately vulgar
andar de pirujo /-a
to be drunk, moderately vulgar
andar pedo
to be drunk
andar tomado
sexually attractive male or female (lit.: to flatten)
apachurro
frigid or uptight girl (lit.: tightly gripped, derogatory)
una apretada
pennypincher / cheap (lit.: tightly gripped)
un apretado
female pubic area (lit.: spider)
la araña
beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: whale)
una ballena
group of friends
la banda
pesos (lit.: clay)
los barros
foolish; stupid
bobo
a group of people, esp. friends (lit.: a ball)
la bola
good vibes; good feelings (lit.: good wave)
buena onda
breasts (lit.: Spanglish phoneticization of ‘boobies’)
las bubis
female sanitary napkin (lit.: horse)
un caballo
bastard / SOB / bad ass (lit.: male goat), moderately vulgar
un cabrón
a tough situation, moderately vulgar
está cabrón
horny; passionate (lit.: in heat), moderately vulgar
cachondo /-a
to sh*t, moderately vulgar
cagar
beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: a species of large sea turtle)
una caguama
horny (lit.: hot)
caliente
a syringe (lit.: a type of cannon)
una carabina
close friend; a close relative (lit.: flesh)
carnal
a love nest; the house your mistress lives in (lit.: little house)
la casa chica
to have sex; a quickie
chaca chaca
cheap; low quality
chafa
calm down; you’re kidding etc.
chale!
child; young person; teen
un chamaco /-a
opportunity; perhaps (lit.: Spanglish, chance)
chance
a mix of heroin and cocaine (lit. monkey)
el chango
to masturbate, moderately vulgar
chaquetear
boy / girl
un chavo /-a / un huerco /-a
beer
una chela
glue (sniffing)
el chemo
breasts
las chichis
cool; good; high quality
chido
crazy; nutcase
chiflado /-a
penis (lit. chili pepper)
el chile
a boy; a young man; a teen
un chilpayate
a person missing front teeth
un chimuelo /-a
to screw up; to f*ck up, vulgar
chingar
oops; darn (lit. short for chingada), slightly vulgar
chin!
go f*ck your mother, extremely vulgar
chinga tu madre
extremely bad, vulgar
la chingada
to pester; to f*ck with, vulgar
chingando
a large amount, moderately vulgar
un chingo
continous rainy drizzle; fussy, whiny behavior of a child
chipichipi
gossip
el chisme
a person who gossips
un chismoso /-a
heroin (lit. female goat)
la chiva
to feel embarrassment
chiviar
glue (sniffing) (lit. short for chocolate)
el choco
disagreeable (lit.: from chocar, to hit)
chocoso
women’s underwear
los chones
diarrhea (lit.: spurt)
el chorillo
diarrhea (lit.: torrent)
el chorro
police
la chota
attractive person
chulo /-a
a person displaying vulgar taste
un chuntara
to suck; to drink, esp. alcohol, moderately vulgar
chupar
marijuana cigarette / joint (lit.: traditional cylindrically shaped donut)
un churro
to be cheap (lit.: elbow)
codo
to have sex (lit.: to grab something), vulgar
coger
the sex act; a f*ck (lit.: to be gored by a bull’s horn), vulgar
una cogida
what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
como chingas / friegas / jodes!
vagina (lit.: conch shell), vulgar
la concha
whorehouse; a bar where prostitutes work
una congal
to break up (a relationship) (lit.: to cut)
cortar
to have a hangover (lit.: raw)
crudo
what’s your f*cking problem?, vulgar
cual es tu pinche pedo?
friend; buddy (lit.: non-identical twin)
cuate
a machine gun (lit.: a goat horn)
un cuerno de chivo
to have sex (lit. to use your ass), vulgar
culear
asshole, vulgar
un culero /-a
ass; cheap, syn. with “codo”, moderately vulgar
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