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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "TAHR" (as in "tar") + "EHN" (as in "egg") + "LAHS" (as in "lava") + "NOO" (as in "nuke") + "behs" (as in "bed")/
To be completely distracted, daydreaming, or mentally absent from what is happening around you. Your body is in the room but your mind is somewhere else entirely, and people have to repeat things multiple times to get through to you. Used across Spain and Latin America.
“He has been totally zoned out, he did not hear a word in class.”
“Ever since he got a girlfriend he walks around with his head in the clouds all day.”
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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "TAHR" (as in "tar") + "EHN" (as in "egg") + "LAHS" (as in "lava") + "NOO" (as in "nuke") + "behs" (as in "bed")/
To be completely distracted, daydreaming, or mentally absent from what is happening around you. Your body is in the room but your mind is somewhere else entirely, and people have to repeat things multiple times to get through to you. Used across Spain and Latin America.
“He has been totally zoned out, he did not hear a word in class.”
“Ever since he got a girlfriend he walks around with his head in the clouds all day.”
Al garete
Without direction, out of control, or in total chaos when everything goes off the rails and there's no stopping it. A nautical Caribbean expression adopted by Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to describe absolute mayhem.