The most powerful wildcard word in Chilean slang — it can mean thing, situation, object, problem, or literally anything else depending on context and tone. Chileans deploy it with surgical precision to cover any noun they can't be bothered to name.

To spy or secretly watch what someone's doing, or to snitch on someone to an authority in Chile and Peru. The sapo is the nosy busybody who sticks their nose where it doesn't belong and then runs off to tell what they saw.

To stalk or pursue someone with romantic or sexual intentions, like a vulture waiting for its moment. It's the most desperate form of flirting, when someone won't stop insisting even after being told no.

An expression of secondhand embarrassment in Chile, when something is so awkward you feel bad for the other person. You want to look away and pretend you didn't see anything that just happened.