Atravesar el caballo – to impede someone or to get in one’s way intentionally
Bombazo – a spectacular car crash
Botado – a big spender of money
Chamba, brete – slang for a job or work
Cleta – slang for bicycle. Bicicleta is the correct word.
Estar como agua para chocolate – to be boiling mad
Faná-tico – means a sports fan or fanatic, but when this word is divided divided it is a play on words.
Jamonero/a – a bully but can also mean a person who likes to eat ham.
pichuleo or camarón – small or sporadic employment
Ponerse águila – similar to pelar el ojo
Pelar el ojo – to be careful or alert
Pipa – intelligent person or a coconut
Policleto – policemen on a bike
Pura candela – is a version of the country’s national motto, pura vida
Sanfra – short for the town of San Francisco de Heredia where I live. San Chico is also slang for San Francisco since chico is the nickname for Francisco.
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