A bad joke, a lame attempt at humor that produces more secondhand embarrassment than laughter. The person who tells chistorretas thinks they're hilarious and nobody dares tell them otherwise.

To play dead — pretending not to know anything, not be involved, or have no responsibility in something to avoid problems or work. The art of convenient invisibility.

A termite, an insect that destroys wood. In Mexico and Central America, also used to describe someone who consumes or takes everything without leaving anything for others.

By chance, by luck, without planning. Something that happens 'de chiripada' arrived without you looking for it or fully deserving it.