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/Sounds like "YEH" (as in "yes") + "bah" (as in "bar") + "PREH" (as in "press") + "soh" (as in "solo")/
Something that has such a powerful hold on you that you cannot stop doing it, like being a willing prisoner to your own obsession. In Venezuela, if something "lleva preso," it consumes you irresistibly and hours disappear without you noticing.
“Music has him captive; he can't go a single day without playing.”
“That game has got me hooked; I've been playing for hours without realizing it.”
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Something that has such a powerful hold on you that you cannot stop doing it, like being a willing prisoner to your own obsession. In Venezuela, if something "lleva preso," it consumes you irresistibly and hours disappear without you noticing.
“Music has him captive; he can't go a single day without playing.”
“That game has got me hooked; I've been playing for hours without realizing it.”
Mejenga
An informal pickup soccer game between friends, no league, no referee, just pure street football on any available patch of ground. In Costa Rica, the mejenga is a social institution: on weekends and after work, groups of Ticos gather to play for the joy of playing. No other Spanish-speaking country uses this exact word.