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/Sounds like "chee" (as in "cheek") + "REEN" (as in "reed") + "goh" (as in "go")/

Meaning

A small informal street food stall with no fixed structure in Venezuela, just a spot, a setup, and whatever they are selling that day. A chiringo runs on pure hustle with minimal investment, usually serving home-style food at affordable prices to the neighborhood.

Examples

Let us go to the chiringo on the corner, they have amazing empanadas.

He set up a little juice chiringo and it is going really well for him.

Regional synonyms

Someone who prefers foreign things over their own country's culture, especially American products, music, or trends. The word comes from La Malinche, the indigenous woman who served as Hernán Cortés' translator during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and it carries a deep cultural sting of betrayal and selling out your own people.