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/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "koh" (as in "coat")/

Meaning

Cocaine in Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela, the street name for the white powder drug. A single word that carries decades of heavy history on the continent.

Examples

They caught him with perico at the airport.

Perico ruins lives, it's no joke.

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Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Falopa
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Chile
Merca

/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "koh" (as in "coat")/

Meaning

Scrambled eggs with tomato, onion, and sometimes green pepper that's the quintessential Venezuelan breakfast. Perico goes with arepa every morning and it's the first dish any Venezuelan learns to make.

Examples

Some perico with arepa for breakfast, perfect.

My mom makes the best perico in the world.

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Someone who got a job, privilege or position through connections rather than merit. In Mexico and Spain an enchufado is plugged in, it's not what you know but who you know.