To chat or converse via text messages on any messaging application. This is the most normalized English loanword in digital Spanish.

The legendary smack delivered with a flip-flop — the iconic Latin American parenting tool and universal symbol of maternal discipline. The chancletazo transcends borders and generations.

Embarrassment, shame, or secondhand cringe in Peru — that uncomfortable feeling when you've done something awkward or watched someone else do it. Roche hits different in Peru: it's the full-body heat of a social faux pas, the wish that the floor would open and swallow you.

Freeze-dried potato — a staple Andean food preserved through an ancient technique where potatoes are left outside overnight in freezing temperatures, then stomped to remove moisture. In Bolivia and Peru, chuño is the centuries-old solution to food scarcity in the highlands, still eaten daily.