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/Sounds like "cheen" (as in "cheek") + "gah" (as in "garden") + "DEH" (as in "debt") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

Any random thing of no importance, a low-quality object, or a mean, unfair action. Chingadera is the Mexican wildcard word for everything that's not worth it.

Examples

What's that chingadera you bought? It looks ugly.

That chingadera doesn't work anymore, throw it out.

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/Sounds like "cheen" (as in "cheek") + "gah" (as in "garden") + "DEH" (as in "debt") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

A dirty or underhanded move someone pulls on you in Mexico. When someone makes you a chingadera, they did something genuinely bad that you did not deserve, whether it was a betrayal, a mean trick, or a low blow behind your back.

Examples

Doing that to him was a real low blow on their part.

I never expected that kind of dirty move from a friend.

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An informal pickup soccer game between friends, no league, no referee, just pure street football on any available patch of ground. In Costa Rica, the mejenga is a social institution: on weekends and after work, groups of Ticos gather to play for the joy of playing. No other Spanish-speaking country uses this exact word.