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/Sounds like "mah" (as in "mark") + "neh" (as in "net") + "HAHR" (as in "hard")/

Meaning

To drive a vehicle, the standard verb used across Latin America for what Spain calls "conducir." Getting behind the wheel and navigating the traffic, the potholes, and the drivers who seem to have invented their own personal rules of the road.

Examples

I learned to drive at eighteen and it took me months to get the hang of it.

Please don't drive if you've been drinking.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de España
Conducir

To mess around, joke aggressively, or waste time doing nothing productive in Chile. A multi-use verb where context determines if it's friendly banter, a serious insult, or just pure laziness.