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/Sounds like "KLEH" (as in "clerk") + "chah" (as in "chat")/
In Chicano calo (the Mexican-American street dialect of the US-Mexico border), a "clecha" is a lecture, scolding, or dressing-down someone gives you to correct your behavior or teach you a lesson. Think of it as getting an earful from someone older or in charge.
“He gave the kid a real talking-to for acting out.”
“My boss gave me a lecture for showing up late.”
/Sounds like "KLEH" (as in "clerk") + "chah" (as in "chat")/
Chicano and Pachuco caló for school or class. "Llegar tarde a la clecha" means showing up late to school, and "echarle clecha" to someone means lecturing them. Vocabulary that survived from 1940s Pachuquismo and is still heard in Chicano neighborhoods across the US Southwest.
“I have school at seven, already dragging.”
“He did not go to school today, stayed home.”
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/Sounds like "KLEH" (as in "clerk") + "chah" (as in "chat")/
In Chicano calo (the Mexican-American street dialect of the US-Mexico border), a "clecha" is a lecture, scolding, or dressing-down someone gives you to correct your behavior or teach you a lesson. Think of it as getting an earful from someone older or in charge.
“He gave the kid a real talking-to for acting out.”
“My boss gave me a lecture for showing up late.”
/Sounds like "KLEH" (as in "clerk") + "chah" (as in "chat")/
Chicano and Pachuco caló for school or class. "Llegar tarde a la clecha" means showing up late to school, and "echarle clecha" to someone means lecturing them. Vocabulary that survived from 1940s Pachuquismo and is still heard in Chicano neighborhoods across the US Southwest.
“I have school at seven, already dragging.”
“He did not go to school today, stayed home.”
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Juquiao
Completely wasted, blackout drunk, the kind of drunk where you cannot find the door or remember how you got there. In Puerto Rico, juquiao describes a seriously advanced state where the body has basically stopped cooperating. The word likely comes from "hooked," as in fully hooked on the drink.