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/Sounds like "keh" (as in "kept") + "DAHR" (as in "dart") + "KOH" (as in "coat") + "moh" (as in "more") + "EHL" (as in "egg") + "OH" (as in "oh") + "yoh" (as in "yoke")/

Meaning

To come out of something looking terrible, to make a complete fool of yourself or perform catastrophically. In Chile this expression is blunt: you looked awful, below everyone. There's no easy comeback.

Examples

I looked terrible in the presentation, I completely froze up.

The team looked horrible with that result.

To dance bachata, a rhythm from the Dominican Republic characterized by hip movements and short steps in a close partner hold. The verb is used in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Spain, where the genre exploded in popularity from the 1990s onward.