It's your job, the work that puts food on the table. And when you're working, you say you're "chambeando".
No puedo salir hoy, tengo un montón de chamba y me toca chambear hasta tarde.
I can't go out today, I've got a ton of "chamba" and I have to "chambear" until late.
"La neta" is the truth, or what you say when you're about to be honest, like "to be honest". "Neta" on its own is like "for real", and if you ask "¿neta?" you want to know if something is true.
La neta no me gustó la peli. —¿Neta? A mí me encantó.
"La neta" I didn't like the movie. —"¿Neta?" I loved it.
Philly's all-purpose word that can mean basically anything: a thing, a place, a person, or an event. It works like 'thing' or 'thingy', and you figure out what it means from context.
Grab that jawn off the counter for me, and let's head to the jawn on South Street.
Means 'really', 'super', or 'a ton of'. It's classic Bay Area and NorCal slang, and you can put it in front of an adjective or a noun.
That concert was hella fun, but there were hella people in line.
Basically 'no lie' or 'for real'. You say it to show you're dead serious about what you just said. It comes from 'cap', which means a lie in Black and hip-hop slang.
This is the best pizza I've had all year, no cap.
A cute short form of 'delusional'. It's for someone living in a fantasy, usually about a crush, a relationship, or a celebrity they're obsessed with.
She thinks her favorite K-pop idol is gonna notice her comment and marry her, she's so delulu.
Means something is crazy good. People mostly say it about food that tastes amazing, but it works for anything that's really great.
Bro, these wings are bussin, you gotta try one.
Short for 'suspicious' or 'suspect'. You call someone or something sus when it seems shady or like you can't totally trust it.
He said he was home all night, but his story sounds kinda sus.
Used when someone is really fit or good-looking. You can also say it about anything that's really good, and about food it means it's proper tasty.
Have you seen the new girl in our maths class? She's actually peng.
Means loads of, or a lot of something. It also works like 'really' or 'very' to crank up whatever you're saying.
There were bare people at the party last night, it was bare jokes.
When something's peak, it's bad luck or just plain awful, like 'that's rough'. Confusingly, in some parts of the UK people use it to mean the opposite, that something's good.
I missed the last bus home and my phone died, that's peak.
It's when something is really nice, pretty, or you just love it. You use it for things that look good, are well made, or that you have a great time with.
Qué chido estuvo el concierto de anoche, ¡hay que repetirlo!
How "chido" last night's concert was, we have to do it again!
