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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

To be completely stunned and frozen by surprise, unable to react for a moment. In Colombia and Venezuela, "quedarse patidifuso" happens when reality delivers something so far beyond what you expected that your brain just stops briefly before it can process the news.