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/Sounds like "CHAH" (as in "chat") + "peh" (as in "pet")/

Meaning

A passionate, long, intense kiss in Argentina and Uruguay, the kind you never want to end. A chape is more than a regular kiss: there's tongue, there's desire, and there are usually uncomfortable witnesses.

Examples

They had a massive chape at the party.

I went in for a chape and she was stunned.

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Regional synonyms

In Chile, to have a gut feeling or hunch about something without any rational explanation. "Tincarse" means trusting that internal signal when something feels right or off before you can even put it into words. Chileans take their tincas seriously.