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If you’ve ever asked a Mexican whether it’s cold enough for a chaqueta or asked a Cuban to pass a bollo at dinner, you’ll know that Latino slang terms can vary from country to country, region to region, generation to generation, a reality that often results in embarrassing situations. Guanabee Glossary is our attempt to teach you Latino slang and save you from looking like a weird-ass fool in mixed company. Enjoy it, cabrones.
perico
[peh-ree-ko] noun
Refers to a parakeet, but can also be used to describe cocaine.
Guanabee Glossary: Perico
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29 Jul 2009 | 17:15
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If you’ve ever asked a Mexican whether it’s cold enough for a chaqueta or asked a Cuban to pass a bollo at dinner, you’ll know that Latino slang terms can vary from country to country, region to region, generation to generation, a reality that often results in embarrassing situations. Guanabee Glossary is our attempt to teach you Latino slang and save you from looking like a weird-ass fool in mixed company. Enjoy it, cabrones.
perico
[peh-ree-ko] noun
Refers to a parakeet, but can also be used to describe cocaine.
¿Fumaste el perico de mi compañera de apartamento? Debemos ir a la pajarería.You smoked my roommate's parakeet? We should go to the pet shop...
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Guanajo, perico means cocaine!
ReplyGogethekitty is quite right. Also, in Colombia we have Huevos Pericos: diced tomatoes, onions, peppers w scrambled eggs. And in DR, they have a type of music called Perico Ripiao that consists of scraping this hand-held instrument (looks like a cheese grater) w some type of stick. Always played by welcoming bands at the airports there.
ReplyY'all are right. The source I was using lied to me, thus making me look like a weird-ass fool in mixed company.
ReplyA weird-ass cocaine smoker no less.
ReplyIt's medical cocaine.
Replythe cheese grater look-alike..lol...is called a guiro
ReplyNo worries, Alex. If anything, I'm the weird-ass one for my highly suspect knowledge of the various use of the word "perico". And thanks for throwing me a life line w the name of the musical instrument, Guest. I didn't want to offend anyone by saying it looked like a cheese-grater but that's what it reminded me of! lol!
ReplyWell... if you would have said guiro instead of cheese-grater with a stick, only a few would have know what you were talking about.
ReplyI'm confused... so what does perico mean?
ReplyI have heard coca being called pericas pero never perico, that was my grama mama's parrot
ReplyWell here in SoCal, and the rest of Mexico, "Perico" is cocaine or being high on coke, as in "Ando bien perico" or "Ando bien loro". Also used as "Pericazo" (snort, hit), "Periquin"(small quantity) or "periquito" (small hit or quantity). So if you people ever hear the word "perico" at a party or a club, notify the nearest authority....yea right, I would say "Mochesen", "Saquen", "Presta 'pa aca", "De a como".
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