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/Sounds like "ah" (as in "art") + "rah" (as in "rapper") + "GAHN" (as in "garden")/

Meaning

A lazy person who consistently avoids work and responsibilities in Mexico and Central America, armed with a thousand excuses. Always available for leisure, never available for anything useful.

Examples

That haragán has spent a month without seriously looking for work.

Stop being lazy, get up and help with something.

Gossip or a rumor about someone's private life making the rounds among acquaintances. Used across the entire Spanish-speaking world both as a noun (the gossip itself) and as a social activity at work, home, or in the neighborhood.