To explode positively, to shine, to suddenly stand out. It can also mean to get angry with justification or to start something forcefully.

Modest, restrained, classy. It went viral as the aesthetic opposite of excess: doing things in an elegant, low-key way without drawing attention.

A stuck-up upper-class woman in Chile who looks down on people she considers beneath her. Cuica is the feminine version of cuico — the air of someone who's never had to worry about money and makes sure you know it.

To mug someone by grabbing them from behind or by the neck, a street crime common in Chile and the Southern Cone. Cogotear is violent theft with a physical component — the victim rarely sees it coming.