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/Sounds like "MEHR" (as in "met") + "kah" (as in "car")/
Cocaine, the most common colloquial term for the drug in Argentina and Chile. Used casually and without drama in street-level vocabulary. Likely derived from "mercancía" (merchandise), treating it as just another product to buy and sell.
“You could tell he was on coke, he would not stop talking for a second.”
“That neighborhood is full of dealers moving merca.”
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/Sounds like "MEHR" (as in "met") + "kah" (as in "car")/
Cocaine, the most common colloquial term for the drug in Argentina and Chile. Used casually and without drama in street-level vocabulary. Likely derived from "mercancía" (merchandise), treating it as just another product to buy and sell.
“You could tell he was on coke, he would not stop talking for a second.”
“That neighborhood is full of dealers moving merca.”
Jalarse una torta
A Costa Rican expression for getting (or getting someone) accidentally pregnant, usually said about an unplanned, often teenage, pregnancy. In Costa Rican slang "torta" means a serious mess you can't easily walk away from, so "jalarse una torta" literally means dragging that mess onto yourself. Few problems carry this kind of weight in Costa Rican culture, and the half-joking, half-scolding tone of the phrase is the only way most people know how to talk about it.