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/Sounds like "leh" (as in "let") + "CHOO" (as in "choose") + "gah" (as in "garden")/

Meaning

The US dollar, named after the green color of the bills. In Peru and Venezuela, lechuga is the street slang for American currency, the one everybody wants to have.

Examples

I exchanged some lechugas downtown at the best rate.

Everything's in lechugas, nobody accepts bolívares anymore.

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In Spain, roughly meaning 'like,' 'kind of,' or 'in a way', the catch-all filler used to describe something without committing too firmly to a specific description. The Swiss Army knife of casual Spanish speech.