A minor seismic event, less intense than an earthquake — that slight shake that makes you pause and wonder if it was real. In seismic countries, you learn to tell tremors from the real thing.

A belly or gut, whether from eating too much, drinking too many beers, or just natural weight gain. In Mexico, the infamous 'panza chelera' (beer belly) is a national badge of Sunday football and cerveza.

A person with curly or wavy hair in Mexico. It has absolutely nothing to do with China or ethnicity — it's simply the Mexican way of describing someone whose hair isn't straight.

Loose change, coins, or small cash in Mexico. It's the slang way to refer to those coins you scrape together from the bottom of your pockets when you need exact change.