To act street, embrace a rough neighborhood persona, or carry yourself with urban edge. In Colombia, ñero is working-class urban identity — acting de ñero is adopting those mannerisms, whether you're from the barrio or not.

An extremely cold-sensitive person who feels cold before anyone else does. A friolento wraps up in layers during mild weather and reaches for a blanket the moment any air conditioning turns on.

Cool, awesome, great quality — Colombia's gold-standard compliment for people and things. When something is bacano, it's genuinely good: the party, the person, the food, the idea. It's warm, enthusiastic, and unmistakably Colombian.

To want two people to be together romantically, or to root for a pairing. Borrowed from 'relationship,' shipping is an internet-born cultural act of projecting romantic connection onto real or fictional people.