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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "byoh"/

Meaning

Alcohol or any alcoholic drink in general. In Argentina it's the standard informal word for booze, beer, or anything with alcohol in it.

Examples

We bought escabio for tonight's pre-game.

There's no escabio left, we gotta hit the corner store.

He drank all the escabio by himself.

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Regional synonyms

Chicano Spanglish for the city block or neighborhood block, from English "block." "The people from the bloque" are the folks you grew up with; your bloque is your identity and turf.