MEXICAN SLANG WORDS / MODISMOS MEXICANOS
These are words I have discovered as part of my research.
** Warning ** They have not been vetted and so must be used with caution!
1. aguas / echar aguas - watch out / be on the look out (lit.: waters)
2. andar de piruja / pirujo - engage in slutty behavior,
moderately vulgar
3. andar pedo - to be drunk,
moderately vulgar
4. andar tomado - to be drunk
5. apachurro - sexually attractive male or female (lit.: to flatten)
6. una apretada - frigid or uptight girl (lit.: tightly gripped, derogatory)
7. un apretado - pennypincher / cheap (lit.: tightly gripped)
8. la araña - female pubic area (lit.: spider)
9. una ballena - beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: whale)
10. la banda - group of friends
11. los barros - pesos (lit.: clay)
12. bobo - foolish; stupid
13. la bola - a group of people, esp. friends (lit.: a ball)
14. buena onda - good vibes; good feelings (lit.: good wave)
15. las bubis - breasts (lit.: Spanglish phoneticization of 'boobies')
16. un caballo - female sanitary napkin (lit.: horse)
17. un cabrón - *** / SOB / bad ass (lit.: male goat),
vulgar
18. esta cabrón - a tough situation,
vulgar
19. cachonda / cachondo - horny; passionate (lit.: in heat),
moderately vulgar
20. cagar - to ***,
moderately vulgar
21. una caguama - beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: a species of large sea turtle)
22. caliente - horny (lit.: hot)
23. una carabina - a syringe (lit.: a type of cannon)
24. carnal - close friend; a close relative (lit.: flesh)
25. la casa chica - a love nest; the house your mistress lives in (lit.: little house)
26. chaca chaca - to have sex; a quickie
27. chafa - cheap; low quality
28. chale! - calm down; you're kidding etc.
29. una chamaca / un chamaco - child; young person; teen
30. chance - opportunity; perhaps (lit.: Spanglish, chance)
31. el chango - a mix of heroin and cocaine (lit. monkey)
32. chaquetear - to masturbate,
moderately vulgar
33. una chava / un chavo - girl / boy
34. una chela - beer
35. el chemo - glue (sniffing)
36. las chichis - breasts
37. chido - cool; good; high quality
38. chiflado / chiflada - crazy; nutcase
39. el chile - penis (lit. chili pepper)
40. un chilpayate - a boy; a young man; a teen
41. un chimuelo / una chimuela - a person missing front teeth
42. chingar - to screw up; to *** up,
vulgar
43. chin! - oops; darn (lit. short for chingada),
slightly vulgar
44. chinga tu madre - go *** your mother,
extremely vulgar
45. la chingada - extremely bad,
vulgar
46. chingando - to pester; to *** with,
vulgar
47. un chingo - a large amount,
moderately vulgar
48. chipichipi - continous rainy drizzle; fussy, whiny behavior of a child
49. el chisme - gossip
50. una chismosa / un chismoso - a person who gossips
51. la chiva - heroin (lit. female goat)
52. chiviar - to feel embarrassment
53. el choco - glue (sniffing) (lit. short for chocolate)
54. chocoso - disagreeable (lit.: from chocar, to hit)
55. los chones - women's underwear
56. el chorillo - diarrhea (lit.: spurt)
57. el chorro - diarrhea (lit.: torrent)
58. la chota - police
59. chula / chulo - attractive person
60. un chuntara - a person displaying vulgar taste
61. chupar - to suck; to drink, esp. alcohol,
moderately vulgar
62. un churro - marijuana cigarette / joint (lit.: traditional cylindrically shaped donut)
63. codo - to be cheap (lit.: elbow)
64. coger - to have sex (lit.: to grab something),
vulgar
65. una cogida - the sex act; a *** (lit.: to be gored by a bull's horn),
vulgar
66. como chingas! - what a *** pest you are!,
vulgar
67. como friegas! - what a *** pest you are!,
vulgar
68. como jodes! - what a *** pest you are!,
vulgar
69. la concha - vagina (lit.: conch shell),
vulgar
70. una congal - whorehouse; a bar where prostitutes work
71. cortar - to break up (a relationship) (lit.: to cut)
72. crudo - to have a hangover (lit.: raw)
73. cual es tu pinche pedo? - what's your *** problem?,
vulgar
74. cuate - friend; buddy (lit.: non-identical twin)
75. un cuerno de chivo - a machine gun (lit.: a goat horn)
76. culear - to have sex (lit. to use your ass),
vulgar
77. un culera / una culero - ***,
vulgar
78. culo - ass; cheap, syn. with "codo",
moderately vulgar
79. dar lata - to pester; to be bothersome (lit.: to give tin - instead of gold)
80. descarado - shameless
81. un desmadre - a disaster / a mess (lit.: to be motherless),
vulgar
82. desquintar - to lose virginity
83. echale ganas! - make a good effort
84. echar un palo - to have sex (lit.: to take do a stick),
vulgar
85. empinado - sex "doggy" style
86. enchufar - 'hook up'; to have sex (lit.: to plug in)
87. un escuincle - a bratty kid (lit.: a demon)
88. esta canijo - a difficult situation
89. esta cuero - good (lit.: skin)
90. esta perron - the best; the coolest (lit.: big dog)
91. la feria - change; coins; money
92. una fichera - a woman earning in a bar with 'ladies drinks' (lit.: from ficha, a
token)
93. la flojera - laziness (lit.: looseness)
94. floja / flojo - lazy (lit.: loose)
95. fregado - ruined; destroyed; ***,
moderately vulgar
96. fregar - to cause harm to someone; to *** someone up,
moderately vulgar
97. frenos - dental braces (lit.: brakes)
98. fresa - spoiled; a pampered person (lit.: strawberry, mildly derogatory)
99. fuego - matches; lighter (lit.: fire)
100. gacho - unpleasant; ugly (lit.: a cow with down-turned horns)
101. ganas - desire; horny
102. un güey - an idiot; a fool (lit.: a steer),
moderately vulgar
103. una golfa - a ***; a prostitute
104. una gorro - a condom (lit.: a hat)
105. guácala! - an expression of disgust; yuck
106. guacarear - to vomit
107. guango - wide; loose
108. una guera / un guero - a blonde; a person with a light complexion
109. hacer chis - to urinate
orale= esta bien, aa, ok
le caemos o que?= vamos?
Arres= vamonos
no mames= no bromees ,no exageres, ya basta
neta??= de verdad??
que onda o que rollo?= hola, que hay de nuevo
Chingado= no puede ser, que lastima
etc etc etc