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/Sounds like "eh" (as in "egg") + "CHAHR" (as in "chat") + "PEHS" (as in "pet") + "tehs" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

To trash-talk someone intensely and with real bitterness, leaving nothing good about them standing. When you "echar pestes," you are not venting, you are demolishing.

Examples

She arrived at the meeting tearing her boss apart.

The whole neighborhood was trash-talking him after what he did.

To get drunk in Argentina and Uruguay. "Pedo" on its own means drunkenness (and also fart, but context is everything), and "ponerse en pedo" is the act of reaching that state. It is casual, cheerful, and very Rioplatense: Argentines and Uruguayans use it without any judgment, just describing a fact of social life.