To have fun, joke around, or playfully tease someone in the Caribbean and Central America. It's that game among friends where jokes fly back and forth and nobody takes it personally.

Something extremely good, impressive, or intense that can't be described with normal words. When the experience is so powerful, so epic, or so perfect that only 'brutal' does it justice.

To pitch the ball as a pitcher in baseball — the most important position in the game. In the Caribbean it also means to treat or buy someone something: if someone 'te pichea,' they're inviting you.

A large, thick fruit that's cooked fried, roasted, in mole, or in slices across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. It's not a banana: plátano is for cooking, banana is for eating raw — and that difference is sacred.