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/Sounds like "gwah" (as in "Guam") + "kah" (as in "car") + "MAH" (as in "mark") + "yah" (as in "yard")/

Meaning

A beloved Salvadoran street food: a French bread roll stuffed with chicharrón (fried pork) and loroco (a local edible flower with a distinctive earthy flavor). One of the most iconic snacks you'll find at markets and roadside stalls across El Salvador.

Examples

I had a guacamaya sandwich at the market for breakfast and was full until nighttime.

Doña Chabe's guacamayas are the best ones at the whole market.

Regional synonyms

To finally understand something you had not grasped before, that lightbulb moment when the pieces finally click in your head. The phrase comes from old vending machines in Mexico where you had to drop a 20 centavo coin and wait for it to fall and register. So when "el veinte cae," it means the realization has finally landed.