A nickname for the vegetation of the high-altitude plateau, characterized by being dry and sparse (A tough, yellowish bunchgrass common in the Andean highlands).
Once you reach the highway, all you see is paja brava.
A word used by older generations to refer to dried fruit. It was also used as a slang term for the elderly, comparing their wrinkled skin to a shriveled fruit, though this usage became less common as the generation using it grew old themselves. (Refers to traditional sun-dried peaches).
A scratchy, dry, or astringent sensation in the throat, similar to the feeling of having swallowed something prickly or sharp, that remains after eating certain foods like pineapple skin or unripe fruit.
A drinking phrase used among friends to agree on splitting a glass of alcohol by each downing exactly half of it in a single gulp (singani is a grape brandy that is the national spirit of Bolivia).
MITASMATAS, Rafo. That way we can finish off the singani.
It describes a person who is worn out or physically flat, specifically referring to someone whose body parts lack definition as if they have been erased (a contraction of the Spanish word borrada).