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/Sounds like "BEHM" (as in "bed") + "bah" (as in "bar")/
Thick lips or the mouth in general in the Caribbean. Bemba stars in the expression 'radio bemba', gossip that spreads by word of mouth faster than any TV news broadcast.
“Close your bemba or flies are gonna get in.”
“I found out through radio bemba that they're getting divorced.”
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/Sounds like "BEHM" (as in "bed") + "bah" (as in "bar")/
Thick lips or the mouth in general in the Caribbean. Bemba stars in the expression 'radio bemba', gossip that spreads by word of mouth faster than any TV news broadcast.
“Close your bemba or flies are gonna get in.”
“I found out through radio bemba that they're getting divorced.”
Pelota
A sycophant who flatters those in power to get ahead, the classic yes-man who celebrates even his boss's mistakes. In Colombia and Venezuela, pelota is synonymous with "lambón" or "lame botas": someone who never has their own opinion, only whatever the boss thinks.