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/Sounds like "KOH" (as in "coat") + "doh" (as in "door")/

Meaning

An extremely cheap, stingy person who hates spending money and never treats anyone. In Mexico, being called 'codo' is one of the worst social insults, nobody wants to hang out with a codo.

Examples

Don't be a codo and buy the beers for once.

He's so codo he reuses disposable cups.

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Regional synonyms

Gossip, a rumor, or a scandalous situation in Chile. The 'cagüín' is the story everyone wants to hear even though nobody knows exactly how it started. If there's a cagüín, there's drama.