Someone or something impossibly fast — moving at full speed with no slowing down. In Colombia and the Caribbean, soplado describes that person or vehicle that seems to pass by like a gust of wind, barely registering before they're gone.

To do a job sloppily, incompetently, or without the skill needed to do it right. In Mexico and Central America, chambonear is the verb for the clumsy execution that produces work everyone has to fix afterwards.

Very curly hair with tight, voluminous coils that resist any comb. In Colombia and Venezuela, 'crespo' is used without negative connotation and describes both curly hair and complicated situations.

Sluggish, dazed, or totally out of it — moving and thinking as if everything requires triple the normal effort. In Venezuela, aguevonado describes someone who's physically and mentally slow, detached from the urgency around them.