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/Sounds like "dees" (as in "deep") + "pah" (as in "park") + "RAHR" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

To treat, to pick up the tab, to pay for someone else. In Mexico and Central America when someone dispara they're being generous, dinner, drinks, the whole thing is on them.

Examples

I've got this round, it's on me.

My uncle treated us to dinner on his birthday.

Regional synonyms

To mug someone by grabbing them from behind or by the neck, a street crime common in Chile and the Southern Cone. Cogotear is violent theft with a physical component, the victim rarely sees it coming.