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/Sounds like "moh" (as in "more") + "chee" (as in "cheek") + "LEH" (as in "let") + "roh" (as in "row")/

Meaning

A backpacker who travels with just a pack, a tight budget, and a hunger for authentic experiences over tourist traps. Especially common in Colombia and Peru as destination-side vocabulary. The mochilero sleeps in hostels, eats at the market, and gets far closer to local life than most travelers ever do.

Examples

He went backpacking through all of South America for a year on almost nothing.

Backpackers are always the first to discover the neighborhoods that never make it into guidebooks.

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Regional synonyms

In Venezuela, an intensifier meaning a huge amount or a massive size of something. Like saying "a ton of" or "a massive" in English.