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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "PAHR" (as in "park") + "KLAH" (as in "clap") + "seh" (as in "set")/

Meaning

To skip class without permission to go do something more fun, used in Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. It's the teenage art of making up excuses or simply not showing up to school when there's something better to do outside, the Latin American equivalent of playing hooky or ditching class.

Examples

We skipped class to go play soccer all morning.

If you keep ditching class they're going to expel you.

To be the different or problematic member of a group, usually a family, the one who doesn't fit the expected mold. In the Río de la Plata region, the black sheep isn't always wrong, just different from what everyone else wanted them to be.