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/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "teh" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

Grass, lawn, pasture, the green stuff animals eat and kids roll around in. Across Mexico and Central America zacate is the everyday word for any kind of grass or fodder.

Examples

The horses are grazing on the grass in the field.

Go cut the lawn, it's way too overgrown.

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Regional synonyms
Bandera de México
Bandera de Guatemala
Bandera de Honduras
Mechudo
Bandera de Venezuela
Bandera de Colombia
Pajón

/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "teh" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

Chicano Spanglish for the lawn or yard grass that needs mowing, taken from the Mexican Spanish word and applied to American suburban lawns. Mowing the zacate on weekends is a classic barrio ritual.

Examples

Mow the zacate in the yard before the landlord complains.

I pay the neighbor's kid twenty bucks to cut the zacate.

Regional synonyms

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To ban a player from accessing a game or platform for cheating, being toxic, or breaking the rules. The ban is the ultimate sentence in the gaming world.