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How to Talk to Mexican Taxi Drivers: Slang for Getting Around
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Add a word/Sounds like "peh" (as in "pet") + "SEH" (as in "set") + "roh" (as in "row")/
Meaning
A public minibus in Mexico City, named "pesero" because the fare used to cost just one peso. These small, colorful buses are an extreme urban mobility experience, notorious for their reckless driving, packed conditions, and blasting music. They are a staple of daily commuting for millions of people in the capital.
Examples
“Get on the pesero going to Tacuba, that one passes by your house.”
“The peseros go a thousand miles per hour.”
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Meaning
A public minibus in Mexico City, named "pesero" because the fare used to cost just one peso. These small, colorful buses are an extreme urban mobility experience, notorious for their reckless driving, packed conditions, and blasting music. They are a staple of daily commuting for millions of people in the capital.
Examples
“Get on the pesero going to Tacuba, that one passes by your house.”
“The peseros go a thousand miles per hour.”
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Ser un pelmazo
In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.