A mobile street food cart on wheels that rolls through the streets selling all kinds of food. From hot dogs to elotes and esquites, the carrito is the mobile kitchen feeding the people at any hour.

An Argentine insult for someone who's got a screw loose, is not playing with a full deck, or acts erratically. It implies mental instability wrapped in colorful colloquial imagery.

A hard punch, a full-force hit. In Argentina and Uruguay, 'darse piñas' means getting into a fistfight, and one well-placed piña can knock anyone flat.

To make the bed by straightening the sheets and arranging the pillows when you get up — the first morning obligation every mother demands. Also used as an expression meaning to set someone up or conspire against them.