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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "CHAHR" (as in "chat")/

Meaning

To shamelessly ask someone for money, food, or favors with zero intention of giving anything back. In Mexico, pechar is the art of the perpetual moocher, the friend who never has money, always needs a ride, and somehow never pays for their own meal.

Examples

He always bumps cigarettes off me but never has any himself.

He mooched twenty pesos off everyone in the office.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Uruguay
Garronear

In Mexico, nonsense, stupidity, or anything said or done without any basis in reality. "No digas mamadas" is the direct, blunt way of telling someone to stop talking rubbish. Very common in casual Mexican speech.