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/Sounds like "AH" (as in "art") + "pee" (as in "pea")/

Meaning

A hot, sweet drink made from purple corn, cinnamon, and cloves, a beloved staple of Bolivian market culture. Api is especially popular on cold mornings and is almost always paired with buñuelos (fried dough fritters). It tastes nothing like corn: it is warming, fragrant, and deeply comforting.

Examples

Have a hot api before you head out, it is freezing cold this morning.

Api with buñuelos from the market lady is the classic city breakfast, nothing beats it.

Regional synonyms
Bandera de Perú
Chicha morada

In Mexico, a table dancer or strip club performer. The word is Mexico's own phonetic adaptation of the English "table dancer," fully absorbed into everyday Mexican slang. Also used colloquially, sometimes dismissively, to describe someone who dresses or dances in a very provocative way.