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When you are caught red-handed or busted doing something you wanted to keep secret (originally from children's games like hide and seek, it is now widely used for being caught in a scandal or embarrassing act).
Ampay Rocio! I caught you eating greasy food.
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1. An exclamation used in hide and seek to announce finding a player or reaching home base. 2. The act of catching someone red handed or exposing a hidden, often scandalous, act. The derived verb ampayar means to bust someone. (In Peru, this is strongly associated with celebrity gossip shows and paparazzi exposing scandals). The term comes from a phonetic evolution of the English word umpire.
Juan was married and they ampayaron him going out with another woman. They did an ampay on Juan. The game ended when Jose shouted, Ampay, I save myself and I save everyone on my team.
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