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A girl or woman, the feminine form of "chabón" in Buenos Aires lunfardo slang. Neutral and casual, with roots in Romani "chabo" (kid). No judgment attached, it is simply how you refer to a woman in an informal Argentine conversation.
“That girl asked me for the time and I completely froze.”
“He showed up with some girl nobody had ever seen before.”
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/Sounds like "chah" (as in "chat") + "BOH" (as in "boat") + "nah" (as in "nacho")/
A girl or woman, the feminine form of "chabón" in Buenos Aires lunfardo slang. Neutral and casual, with roots in Romani "chabo" (kid). No judgment attached, it is simply how you refer to a woman in an informal Argentine conversation.
“That girl asked me for the time and I completely froze.”
“He showed up with some girl nobody had ever seen before.”
Yiro
In classic Argentine lunfardo, a woman who works as a street prostitute. The word is closely tied to tango culture and the popular poetry of the Rio de la Plata in the 20th century, where the yira became an enduring literary figure: solitary, walking the night, waiting for someone to stop.