To chicken out or back out of something after having already agreed to a plan in Argentina. It's when cowardice or laziness wins right before the crucial moment, and your friends will never let you forget it.

A hundred-peso Argentine bill — the basic unit of street-level financial slang in Buenos Aires. 'Gamba' also means leg in Italian lunfardo, which is how the Argentine peso bill got its name. Essential vocabulary for anyone navigating Buenos Aires on cash.

A skillful dribble past a defender in South American football, done with style and creativity. It's the art of leaving the defender behind with quick leg and hip movements that earn applause from the crowd.

When a song becomes massively popular and gets played absolutely everywhere nonstop. That track that's on the radio, in the taxi, at the supermarket, and you're humming without realizing because it's already stuck in your head.