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/Sounds like "SWEH" (as in "sweat") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

Chicano Spanglish for a hoodie or sweatshirt, borrowed from English "sweater." An everyday barrio staple, especially the hooded suera for cold mornings heading to the fields or school.

Examples

Put on your suera, it's cold outside.

I'm looking for my black suera, have you seen it?

Regional synonyms

To be completely swamped with work or tangled in a situation so complicated you cannot see the way out. In Argentina and Uruguay, when you are hasta las manos you have so much on your plate you do not even know where to start.