Cuba¿qué bolá?
phrase, interjection · Informal · keh boh-LAH
What's up? How's it going? The standard Cuban opener, and the phrase foreigners hear first and imitate worst.
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Cuba
Cuban Slang for Greetings & Address
5 Cuban slang terms for greetings & address, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
How people open a conversation and what they call each other. These terms carry the most social information of any slang category: one wrong choice marks you as an outsider, or worse, as rude.
ambia
noun · Informal · AHM-byah
Friend, brother. Markedly street: it places the speaker in the world of the barrio, the Abakuá lodge or the prison yard in a way that asere no longer does.
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asere
noun, interjection · Informal · ah-SEH-reh
Mate, bro, buddy. The single most recognisably Cuban form of address, used to open a sentence, to close one, or as the whole sentence.
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chico
interjection, noun · Colloquial · CHEE-koh
A vocative particle dropped into speech to soften, appeal or mildly remonstrate — roughly 'mate', 'love' or 'come on now'. The feminine chica works the same way.
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socio
noun · Informal · SOH-syoh
Mate, pal. Both a form of address and a way of referring to a friend, with a strong implication of practical mutual usefulness — a socio is someone who gets things for you.
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