To eat a lot and with serious appetite, when hunger completely takes over and you eat nonstop until your stomach begs for mercy. While 'tragar' literally means 'to swallow,' in slang across Latin America and Spain it means to stuff your face with food like there's no tomorrow.

To not have a single cent in your pocket — completely tapped out and without resources. When you're seco, your bank account is crying and you can't even afford bus fare.

The involuntary scream that comes out when something burns you, straight from Quechua roots. It is in the DNA of Ecuadorians and Peruvians, you do not think it, you say it before the pain even reaches your brain. Like a reflex wired into the culture itself.

A pencil sharpener in Peru and Colombia. The tool for sharpening your pencil when it gets dull and stops writing properly, essential in every school pencil case.