Mastering Spanish Vocabulary 32 Youth Scene, Young People
(la) potra
(good) luck (Spain)
el chollo
(good) luck (Spain)
la litrona
1-liter bottle of beer (Spain)
el cubata
Cuba libre, Coca-Cola with rum (Spain)
¡No me jodas!
Don't give me that crap!
la caja tonta
TV, boob tube
guay
awesome, terrific, great (Spain)
fuerte
awesome; cool
(la) chorra
chance; luck (Spain)
chungo(a)
difficult, bad (Spain)
el/la pinchadiscos
disc jockey, DJ (Spain)
la pasta
dough, money (Spain)
el chaval / la chavala
dude, guy, boy; girl (Spain)
el rollo
exhausting babble, boring nonsense
chachipiruli
hot, great (Spain)
gilipollas
idiot, ass, fool (Spain)
la chupa
jacket (Spain)
la pijada
nonsense
la pasma
police, cops, "pigs" (Spain)
el bocata
sandwich (Spain)
la movida
scene
la hostia
slap, punch
hortera
terrible, horrible (Spain)
joder
to annoy, pester
hacer de canguro
to babysit (Spain)
ser una maruja
to be a nagging housewife (Spain)
cholar
to be awesome (Spain)
molar
to be cool, be hot (Spain)
estar pirao
to be crazy (Spain)
ser un/una carroza
to be outmoded (Spain)
jalar
to eat (Spain)
quedarse con
to fool, hoodwink (Spain)
engancharse
to get drunk; to get high (Spain)
vacilar
to hit on (Spain)
montárselo
to manage something or someone (Spain)
enrollarse
to turn on, move (Spain)
estar al loro
to watch out, be alert (Spain)
currar
to work (Spain)
demasié
too much (Spain)
el/la guiri
tourist (Spain)
el/la pasota
uninvolved youth, youth with a what-do-I-care attitude (Spain)
el pasotismo
what-do-I-care attitude; youthful attitude of indifference (Spain)
la generación pasota
what-do-I-care generation (Spain)
el curro
work, job (Spain)
