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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "SEHR" (as in "set") + "seh" (as in "set") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "see" (as in "see") + "MAH" (as in "mark") + "rrah"/

Meaning

To skip school without permission in Chile, to escape classes and do something more fun with friends. It's the Chilean teenage art of making up excuses to skip class and spend the morning doing anything else.

Examples

He skipped school and got caught at the mall.

If they catch you skipping they're gonna suspend you.

Word family

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.