Spanish Phrases - Mexican Slang - Spanish Slang Phrases

Most of these Mexican slang expressions and words are considered groserias (rude words) or malas palabras (bad words) in Spanish and not appropriate in any but the most informal situations.

On the other hand, you are likely to hear many of these Spanish slang words during your daily interactions with Mexicans. As a general rule, you shouldn't use any vulgar slang expressions unless the person you are speaking to with uses them first.

Please consult the Spanish pronunciation key for tips on how to pronounce Spanish words.

MEXICAN SLANG WORDS / MODISMOS MEXICANOS

aguas / echar aguas - watch out / be on the look out (lit.: waters)
andar de piruja / pirujo - engage in slutty behavior, moderately vulgar
andar pedo - to be drunk, moderately vulgar
andar tomado - to be drunk
apachurro - sexually attractive male or female (lit.: to flatten)
una apretada - frigid or uptight girl (lit.: tightly gripped, derogatory)
un apretado - pennypincher / cheap (lit.: tightly gripped)
la araña - female pubic area (lit.: spider)
una ballena - beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: whale)
la banda - group of friends
los barros - pesos (lit.: clay)
bobo - foolish; stupid
la bola - a group of people, esp. friends (lit.: a ball)
buena onda - good vibes; good feelings (lit.: good wave)
las bubis - breasts (lit.: Spanglish phoneticization of 'boobies')
un caballo - female sanitary napkin (lit.: horse)
un cabrón - bastard / SOB / bad ass (lit.: male goat), moderately vulgar
esta cabrón - a tough situation, moderately vulgar
cachonda / cachondo - horny; passionate (lit.: in heat), moderately vulgar
cagar - to sh*t, moderately vulgar
una caguama - beer in a 40 oz. bottle (lit.: a species of large sea turtle)
caliente - horny (lit.: hot)
una carabina - a syringe (lit.: a type of cannon)
carnal - close friend; a close relative (lit.: flesh)
la casa chica - a love nest; the house your mistress lives in (lit.: little house)
chaca chaca - to have sex; a quickie
chafa - cheap; low quality
chale! - calm down; you're kidding etc.
una chamaca / un chamaco - child; young person; teen
chance - opportunity; perhaps (lit.: Spanglish, chance)
el chango - a mix of heroin and cocaine (lit. monkey)
chaquetear - to masturbate, moderately vulgar
una chava / un chavo - girl / boy
una chela - beer
el chemo - glue (sniffing)
las chichis - breasts
chido - cool; good; high quality
chiflado / chiflada - crazy; nutcase
el chile - penis (lit. chili pepper)
un chilpayate - a boy; a young man; a teen
un chimuelo / una chimuela - a person missing front teeth
chingar - to screw up; to f*ck up, vulgar
chin! - oops; darn (lit. short for chingada), slightly vulgar
chinga tu madre - go f*ck your mother, extremely vulgar
la chingada - extremely bad, vulgar
chingando - to pester; to f*ck with, vulgar
un chingo - a large amount, moderately vulgar
chipichipi - continous rainy drizzle; fussy, whiny behavior of a child
el chisme - gossip
una chismosa / un chismoso - a person who gossips
la chiva - heroin (lit. female goat)
chiviar - to feel embarrassment
el choco - glue (sniffing) (lit. short for chocolate)
chocoso - disagreeable (lit.: from chocar, to hit)
los chones - women's underwear
el chorillo - diarrhea (lit.: spurt)
el chorro - diarrhea (lit.: torrent)
la chota - police
chula / chulo - attractive person
un chuntara - a person displaying vulgar taste
chupar - to suck; to drink, esp. alcohol, moderately vulgar
un churro - marijuana cigarette / joint (lit.: traditional cylindrically shaped donut)
codo - to be cheap (lit.: elbow)
coger - to have sex (lit.: to grab something), vulgar
una cogida - the sex act; a f*ck (lit.: to be gored by a bull's horn), vulgar
como chingas! - what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
como friegas! - what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
como jodes! - what a f*cking pest you are!, vulgar
la concha - vagina (lit.: conch shell), vulgar
una congal - whorehouse; a bar where prostitutes work
cortar - to break up (a relationship) (lit.: to cut)
crudo - to have a hangover (lit.: raw)
cual es tu pinche pedo? - what's your f*cking problem?, vulgar
cuate - friend; buddy (lit.: non-identical twin)
un cuerno de chivo - a machine gun (lit.: a goat horn)
culear - to have sex (lit. to use your ass), vulgar
un culera / una culero - asshole, vulgar
culo - ass; cheap, syn. with "codo", moderately vulgar
dar lata - to pester; to be bothersome (lit.: to give tin - instead of gold)
descarado - shameless
un desmadre - a disaster / a mess (lit.: to be motherless), vulgar
desquintar - to lose virginity
echale ganas! - make a good effort
echar un palo - to have sex (lit.: to take do a stick), vulgar
empinado - sex "doggy" style
enchufar - 'hook up'; to have sex (lit.: to plug in)
un escuincle - a bratty kid (lit.: a demon)
esta canijo - a difficult situation
esta cuero - good (lit.: skin)
esta perron - the best; the coolest (lit.: big dog)
la feria - change; coins; money
una fichera - a woman earning in a bar with 'ladies drinks' (lit.: from ficha, a token)
la flojera - laziness (lit.: looseness)
floja / flojo - lazy (lit.: loose)
fregado - ruined; destroyed; f*cked, moderately vulgar
fregar - to cause harm to someone; to f*ck someone up, moderately vulgar
frenos - dental braces (lit.: brakes)
fresa - spoiled; a pampered person (lit.: strawberry, mildly derogatory)
fuego - matches; lighter (lit.: fire)
gacho - unpleasant; ugly (lit.: a cow with down-turned horns)
ganas - desire; horny
un güey - an idiot; a fool (lit.: a steer), moderately vulgar
una golfa - a slut; a prostitute
una gorro - a condom (lit.: a hat)
guácala! - an expression of disgust; yuck
guacarear - to vomit
guango - wide; loose
una guera / un guero - a blonde; a person with a light complexion
hacer chis - to urinate
hacer puñeta - to masturbate; to wank (lit.: to make a fist), vulgar
hasta la chingada - to the end of patience; very far away, vulgar
la hierba - marijuana (lit.: weed)
hijo de perra - son of a bitch (lit.: son of a female dog), vulgar
hijo de puta - son of a bitch (lit.: son of a whore), extremely vulgar
hijo de tu pinche madre - son of a bitch (lit.: son of your cursed mother), vulgar
hijo jesu! - jesus h. christ (lit.: baby jesus)
hijole! - oh my gosh!
un huelepedos - a follower not a leader (lit.: a fart smeller), moderately vulgar
una huerca / un huerco - girl / boy
hueva - laziness
a huevo - of course
un huevón / una huevona - lazy person / layabout (derogatory)
los huevos - testicles (lit.: eggs)
una huila / un huilo - a slut; a prostitute
una interesada / un interesado - a gold digger (lit: someone with interest)
jale - work; job (lit.: pull)
mi jefa / mi jefe - my mom / my dad (lit.: my boss)
joder - to have sex, vulgar
esta jodido! - it's f*cked!, vulgar
un joto - homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
un lameculos - a brown noser (lit.: an ass licker), vulgar
la lana - money (lit.: wool)
la leche - sperm (lit.: milk)
la ley - police (lit.: the law)
los limones, limoncitas - small breasts (lit.: limes)
latoso - bothersome; a pest (lit.: tinny)
una machorra - lesbian (lit.: a sterile female animal, derogatory)
un madrazo - a beating, to beat the sh*t out of, moderately vulgar
madre - negative adjective (lit.: mother), moderately to extremely vulgar
madrear - beat the stuffing out of someone, moderately vulgar
mala muerte - a place of ill repute
un malandro - a criminal / a good-for-nothing
mamacita - attractive woman (lit.: little mother)
una mamada - oral sex, especially to a male (lit.: a suck), vulgar
mamadas - bullsh*t (lit.: suckling), moderately vulgar
mamey - sexually attractive male (lit.: a tropical fruit)
un mamón - a snob; stuck-up (lit.: a sucker), moderately vulgar
'mano - brother (lit.: short for hermano, brother)
un marica - homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
un maricón - homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
una marimacha - tomboy; butch; lesbian (derogatory)
mear - to urinate
me vale madre! - I don't give a sh*t, (lit.: I don't value it), vulgar
los mecos - semen, vulgar
méndigo - emphatic negative adjective similar to darn (lit.: beggarly)
menso - fool; idiot
metiche - nosy
mi hija / mi hijo - my daughter / my son
mi vieja / mi viejo - my old lady / my old man
una mocosa / un mocoso - a snot-nosed kid
un montón - a large quantity (lit.: a mountain)
una mora / un moro - girl / boy; young person (lit.: Moor)
la morralla - coins; small change
la mota - marijuana
una muchacha / un muchacho - girl / boy; young person
una naca / un naco - a vulgar person; in poor taste, moderately vulgar
un narco - a drug dealer (lit.: short for narcotraficante)
la nave - car (lit.: ship)
nena / nene - baby (term of affectionate)
ni modo - 'tough luck'; it can't be helped (lit.: in no fashion)
no hay bronca - there's no problem
no hay pedo - there's no problem, moderately vulgar
no manches! - you're kidding / no way (lit: don't stain)
no mames! - you're kidding / no way (lit: don't suck me), moderately vulgar
no me das lata! - don't bother me (lit.: don't give me tin)
un ojete - asshole (lit.: eyelet), vulgar
pacheco - stoned; high on marijuana
pagar con cuerpomático - pay a debt with sex (lit.: pun on body and ATM)
un pájaro - an erect penis (lit.: a bird), moderately vulgar
un pandillero - gang member
la panocha - a vagina (lit.: an ear of corn), moderately vulgar
panzona - pregnant (lit.: big bellied)
un papacito - attractive man (lit.: little father)
de parranda - bar hopping; pubcrawl
el pase - cocaine (lit. a pass)
la patrulla - police (lit.: patrol)
payaso - foolish; idiot (lit.: clown)
un pedo - fart; drunkenness, moderately vulgar
un pelado / una pelada - a rude person; poor manners (lit.: peeled)
las pelotas - testicles (lit.: balls)
una pendeja / un pendejo - a f*cking idiot; a cuckold, vulgar
pequeña - a little girl; a 'shorty' (lit.: something small)
la piedra - crack cocaine (lit. rock)
pinche - damn, moderately vulgar
una piruja / un pirujo - a slut; a prostitute, moderately vulgar
el pito - penis (lit.: pipe whistle), moderately vulgar
una pollita - sexually attractive young woman (lit.: chick)
las pompis - butt
poner los cuernos - to cheat on one's spouse (lit. to put on the horns)
un preservativo - condom (lit.: preservative)
una prosti - prostitute; a slut (lit.: short for prostituta)
un puñal - a homosexual (lit.: a dagger, derogatory), moderately vulgar
una puta - prostitute (derogatory), vulgar
un putazo - a beating, to beat the sh*t out of, moderately vulgar
un puto - male prostitute or homosexual (derogatory), vulgar
una querida / un querido - a lover (lit.: a cherished one)
que bárbaro! - how barbaric!
que chido! - super; first class, etc.
que honda? - what's up? (lit.: what wave)
que hubo? - what's up?
que padre! - how wonderful!
que pedo? - what's up?, moderately vulgar
que pex? - what's up?
que tal? - what's up?
quinta - female virgin
un rabo verde - a dirty old man (lit.: refers to an onion, green stalk with white 'whiskers')
ramera - a prostitute, vulgar
rayado - bad reputation (lit.: scratched)
un rayd - a ride (lit.: Spanglish phonetic adaptation of ride)
re - prefix used for emphasis ex: rechafa, reputa
resaca - a hangover (lit.: tide)
riata - penis (lit.: lasso, lariat)
sacado de onda - to be put in a bad mood (lit.: taken out of the wave)
salado - embittered (lit.: salty)
sangrón - hateful
una santarona - a virginal woman; a frigid woman (lit.: a big saint)
un sics - a 6-pack of beer, (lit. Spanglish, six-pack)
la soda - cocaine (lit. Spanglish, soda pop)
suelta - a police informant; a 'snitch' (lit. loose)
una tacha - any illegal drug in pill form
talonear - to scratch out a living, esp. to work as a prostitute (lit.: to claw), vulgar
tecata - an intravenous drug user
un tipo - a guy; a 'fella' (lit.: a type)
toda madre - all out; full throttle, moderately vulgar
una tortillera - a lesbian lit.: a tortilla maker, derogatory)
traquetear - to have sex (lit.: to rattle)
travieso - naughty
turulato - drugged or drunk into near unconsciousness
la verga - penis (lit.: ship's mast), vulgar
vete a la chingada! - go f*ck yourself, extremely vulgar
vete a la verga! - go to hell; go f*ck yourself (lit.: go to the ship's mast, slang for penis), vulgar
vete al carajo! - go to hell; go f*ck yourself (lit.: go to the penis), vulgar

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