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/Sounds like "chahn" (as in "chat") + "CHOO" (as in "choose") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/

Meaning

A shady deal or scheme to get something dishonestly, used across Spain and Latin America to describe corrupt arrangements of all kinds: rigged contracts, tax evasion setups, or any under-the-table maneuver that smells fishy.

Examples

That contract is full of funny business, something is very off.

They set up a whole scheme to avoid paying taxes and ended up getting caught.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Uruguay
Guiso
Bandera de México
Transa

In Central America, a casual, agenda-free hangout where friends get together to talk, laugh, and kill time. A chorcha has no fixed schedule and no pretensions: just people who trust each other, sitting around with good humor and nowhere they need to be.