The car horn you use to warn people or express your frustration in traffic. Honking the claxon is an art form in Latin American cities — one honk means 'move,' three means war.

Used to describe someone who was left stunned, embarrassed, or completely speechless by a situation. When you say "quedó" about someone, you're saying life emotionally slapped them and they had no idea how to react. Third-person version of the quedé/quedaste family in Mexican slang.

To be in a terrible situation or feeling absolutely awful in Mexico. It's used for physical misery, emotional rock-bottom, or just having the worst day imaginable.

A violent, destructive shaking of the earth that topples buildings and changes lives. In Chile, which has the strongest earthquakes in history, they're a fact of life everyone prepares for.