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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "rroh"/

Meaning

An old, beat-up, barely functional device or machine that you keep using because you can't afford a new one. It's the gadget that's held together by hope and prayers.

Examples

This old clunker of a car still runs somehow.

Throw away that piece of junk and buy a new one.

/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "rroh"/

Meaning

A cellphone or mobile phone in Cuba, the colloquial Cuban way to refer to the device that everyone's glued to. It's their everyday word for the gadget that connects them to the world.

Examples

Give me your number, I'll save it on my phone.

My phone died and I need to charge it.

Regional synonyms

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To flirt without commitment, to be in that limbo with someone where you're not together but not just friends either. The classic 'we have a thing but we're nothing official.'.