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/Sounds like "pee" (as in "pea") + "CHEEN" (as in "cheek") + "gah" (as in "garden")/

Meaning

A large container of water or liquids in Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador, typically the several-gallon plastic jug used for drinking water in homes without constant service. When the neighborhood water gets cut, the pichinga is salvation. Also used figuratively to describe someone full of something ("lleno como pichinga").

Examples

We have to fill the pichingas before the water gets cut.

I drank a whole jug after work.

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Regional synonyms

A person who abuses their power or position to mistreat, humiliate, and walk all over others. The one who thinks that having authority means they can treat anyone however they please without consequences.