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Home » Blog » Argentina Spanish Slang » Crime Words in Spanish Flashcards: 33 Argentina Spanish Expressions

Crime Words in Spanish Flashcards: 33 Argentina Spanish Expressions


Talking about criminal activities in a Spanish-speaking country will force you to get a deeper knowledge of the local words. Crime words in Spanish vary among countries and Argentina is not the exception. What you think should be a simple, common word might hold a double meaning. So pay attention to these examples!

Here is a list of 33 Argentina Spanish expressions related to crime. They are presented in a "flash card power point format" that you can download, print or embed on your website. This set of words appears in the Quick Vocabulary Tables from the book Speaking Argento: A Guide to Spanish from Argentina.

 

33 Argentina Spanish Expressions: Crime Words in Spanish Flashcards

Crime Words in Spanish Flash Cards: Argentina Spanish Expressions from Speaking Latino

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List of Crime Words in Spanish from Argentina

These are all the words included in the presentation flash cards:

1. afanar: to steal, rob or swindle

2. arbolito: an illegal money changer (the changing of money is controlled by the government)

3. batidor: a snitch, informant

4. bocina: a snitch

5. bocón: a snitch

6. boga: lawyer

7. botón: 1) a police officer 2) a snitch

8. botonazo: a snitch

9. botonear: to inform on, give someone away, betray

10. buchón: a snitch, informant

11. buchonear: to inform, give someone away, betray

12. cachiporra: a police night stick

13. campana: a lookout during a robbery

14. cana: the police

15. chorear: to steal

16. chorro: a dirty, rotten thief

17. cobanis: police officers as referred to by thieves

18. curro: 1) a thief 2) small job

19. dechavar / deschavar: to snitch on, denounce

20. estar en cana: to be in jail, prison

21. estar guardado: to be in jail

22. falopa: drugs

23. falopearse: to shoot up, use drugs

24. falopero: a drug addict

25. garca: a swindler, a cheater, the inverse of cagar

26. gato: a prostitute

27. guardado: imprisoned

28. prontuario: police record

29. punga: a pick-pocket

30. rati: police officer

31. tumba: prison

32. vigilante: 1) an informant, a snitch 2) a police officer

33. yuta: a police officer

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