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/Sounds like "preen" (as in "pretty") + "GAHR" (as in "garden") + "seh" (as in "set")/

Meaning

To get mixed up in something shady or morally compromising, ending up tainted by association. In Spain, once you are "pringado" there is no pretending you were not involved. The word literally means getting covered in grease or fat, and socially it means you are implicated whether you meant to be or not.

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Si te pringas en ese negocio, después no digas que no te avisaron. (If you get mixed up in that deal, don't say you weren't warned.)

Todo el que estuvo ahí se pringó. (Everyone who was there ended up implicated.)

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/Sounds like "preen" (as in "pretty") + "GAHR" (as in "garden") + "seh" (as in "set")/

Meaning

To do the dirty work that nobody else wants to do, carrying the load while everyone else sits back. In Spain, "pringarse" is what happens when one person ends up doing everything and the rest just watch.

Examples

Me pringué limpiando solo mientras los demás descansaban.

I ended up doing all the cleaning by myself while everyone else rested.

Siempre es el mismo el que se pringa con todo el trabajo.

It's always the same person who gets stuck doing all the work.

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Dead tired, completely wiped out, with zero energy to do absolutely anything else in Chile. Being raja is the maximum level of exhaustion where all you want is to crash into bed and not wake up until tomorrow.