A person who works hard and is always looking for ways to make money, especially through informal street work or side gigs (this term is a phonetic adaptation of the English word hustler).
I am hanging out on the corner because I am a josiador.
A high school where students grow marijuana during the high school shift in order to pass their classes, where the daily homework consists of smoking and planting weed (General Antonio Duverge is a public high school in Santo Domingo that has a local reputation in urban slang for delinquency).
Teacher, what did I get on the joint rolling exam? You got a hundred. And on the smoking part? An eighty, because you dropped half of it.
A slang term used by streetwise hustlers to refer to cocaine. (In the Dominican Republic, a tiguere is a street-smart person, and escama refers to the fish-scale texture of high-purity product).
Yo, what's up, give me a little bag of blanco escama.
A term used to refer to large quantities of drugs or high-level trafficking. (Baní and San Cristóbal are Dominican provinces frequently mentioned in major drug cases, such as that of the infamous drug lord Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo).
You know what they produce in Colombia, that is Kilo.
A sea of drugs, specifically marijuana. (This is a play on the Spanish word for marmot, combining mar, meaning sea, and mota, a common Mexican slang term for weed).
Burundanga is a drug or chemical substance that criminals put on papers or objects to incapacitate victims. It is used in crimes because it causes severe physical discomfort and leads to total memory loss of whatever happens while under its influence. (In many Latin American countries, this term refers to scopolamine, a drug used to leave victims conscious but submissive during robberies.)
1. My daughter was the victim of an attempted robbery using burundanga. 2. At the store, a lady handed me a paper laced with burundanga: she wanted to rob me.
A bell shaped flower, orange or purple, that typically blooms in winter and is common in Central America. It has hallucinogenic properties and can induce a deep sleep (it is a local name for varieties of the Angel Trumpet plant).
Put a Floricunda under the pillow and you will make that person fall into a deep sleep until you take it away.
This refers to any type of powdered drug. If someone mentions Polvo in the Dominican Republic, you should be careful about which kind they mean (the word is also a very common slang term for a sexual encounter, so context is important).