Spanish Slang Dictionary

A huevo — Hell yeah

Abro melón — Address complex issue, unpopular opinion

Albur — Sexual double entendre wordplay

Ayunaste — You flopped, you had zero impact

Bocachancla — Big mouth, talks too much nonsense

Cagarla — To screw up

Calentón — A sudden burst of sexual desire, or a person prone to such feelings

Chafa — Cheap low quality

Chavo / chava — Kid / young person

Chela / cheve — Beer

Chilango — A person from Mexico City

Chingar — To fuck / to mess with

Churri — Sweetheart

Codo — Cheap / stingy person

Comerse el marrón — To deal with the problem

Dar una mamada — To give a blowjob

Echar un casquete — To have a quickie

Echar un kiki — To have a quickie / to have casual sex

Echar un polvo — To have sex with someone

El burro sabe más que tú — Calling someone dumb or incompetent

En el quinto pino — Very far away

Eres un parguela — You're a loser / you're a sucker

Estar colado — To be in love/ obsessed

Estar colgado/a por alguien — To be crazy about someone, obsessively infatuated

Estar como un tren — To be extremely attractive

Estar crudo — To be hungover

Estar en la luna — To be daydreaming not paying attention

Estar entre la espada y la pared — To be in a difficult situation with no good option

Estar frito — To be asleep or extremely tired

Estar hasta en la sopa — Someone or something is everywhere in an annoying way

Estar sin blanca — To be broke

Estoy hasta el coño — I'm fed up, I've had it

Está muy padre — It's really cool

Gacho — Mean / lame

Hacer la cobra — To dodge a kiss / to pull away and reject someone leaning in for a kiss

Hacer la cucharita — To spoon, cuddle lying together

Hacerse una paja — To masturbate

La concha de la lora — Damn! What the fuck??

La madre que te parió — God damn it

Liarse con alguien — To hook up with someone

Llevar a alguien al huerto — To seduce someone into bed

Machirulo — A sexist guy

Mandarlo todo a la porra — To tell it all to go to hell / To throw it all away

Me importa un pimiento — I don't care at all

Me vale madres — I don't give a fuck

Meter la pata — To mess up

Metiche — Nosy person

Mi media naranja — My soulmate

Mojar el churro — To have sex

Neta — Really

No comerse ni una rosca — To get no action romantically/sexually

No dar un palo al agua — To be lazy and not lift a finger

No mames — No fucking way

No me da la vida — I don't have time

No me rayes — Don't stress me out

No tengo pelos en la lengua — To be blunt / speak your mind

Pasar de alguien — To ignore someone

Pedir peras al olmo — To ask for something impossible

Pedo / peda — Problem / party / drunken state

Pendejo — Idiot

Pillarse por alguien — To fall for someone / to develop feelings for someone

Pinche — Fucking / damn

Planchabragas — A man who lets himself be ruled by his partner, under the thumb

Poner mirando a Cuenca — To take someone from behind during sex

Ponerse cachonda — To get horny

Que te folle un pez — Go screw yourself

Qué putada — What a bummer

Restregar cebolleta — Close physical contact between two people, kind of like dry humping

Revolcón — A quick passionate sexual encounter

Se ha liado parda — All hell broke loose

Se te va la olla — You're losing it, you're out of your mind

Ser un cuadro — To be a total character / to be entertainingly chaotic

Ser un rata — A cheap person who doesn't want to spend money or share.

Ser un/a pagafantas — To be exploited to pay for everything without getting romantic return

Servir coño — To to deliver an outstanding look or performance

Te falta una patata para el kilo — You are very stupid

Tener la cara más dura que el cemento — To be shameless and rude

Tener menos luces que un callejón — To be really dumb

Tirarle los tejos — Seduce or show romantic interest towards another person

Tocar la zambomba — Male masturbation

Tocar los cojones — To annoy someone

Tq — I love you

Tu puta madre en bicicleta — No way!

Un borde — A rude / unpleasant person

Un cansino — An annoying person

Un toca pelotas — A nuisance

Un tocapelotas — A nuisance

Vaya tela — What a mess

Verga — Penis

Vete a freír espárragos — Get lost, go bother someone else

Vete al carajo — Go to hell

Wey / güey — Dude

Y una polla como una olla — Yeah right, not a chance

¿Qué pedo? — What's up / what the hell?

Éramos pocos y parió la abuela — As if things weren't bad enough