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/Sounds like "deh" (as in "debt") + "HAHR" (as in "hard") + "EHN" (as in "egg") + "BEES" (as in "bee") + "toh" (as in "toll")/

Meaning

To read someone's WhatsApp message and deliberately not reply, leaving the blue double checkmarks as proof you saw it and chose silence. Used across Latin America and Spain, being left en visto is considered crueler than being blocked: they know you read it.

Examples

They left me on read and I have been waiting two days for a reply.

Why do you leave me on read? Just reply something, anything.

Regional synonyms

A vague promise of time that has no actual hour or minute attached to it. Used in Mexico. "Al rato" sounds like it means "in a little while" but the clock is entirely open-ended: it could be fifteen minutes or three hours. Anyone who has waited for a Mexican friend to show up "al rato" has learned this lesson the hard way.