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¡Qué quilombo!
🇦🇷 Spanish slang from Argentina
What does “¡Qué quilombo!” mean?
What a mess!
Example
“¡Qué quilombo hay en el centro hoy!”
What chaos there is downtown today!
Good to know
'Quilombo' once meant a brothel; now it just means chaos. Informal.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
☕ Everyday
The textbook way to say it: ¡Qué desorden!
Heard in a conversation
The lost phone
Flor Mati, soy Flor, escribo del celu de mi hermana. Perdí el mío en el bondi 😭 ¡Qué quilombo!
mati it's flor, texting from my sister's phone. I lost mine on the bus 😭 what a mess
Mati ¡Nooo! ¿Posta? ¡Qué garrón! 😩 ¿Lo llamaste? Capaz alguien lo atiende.
nooo for real?? what a bummer 😩 did you call it? maybe someone picks up
🤯 How other countries say “What a mess!”
- 🇪🇸 ¡Qué lío!Spain
- 🇲🇽 ¡Qué desmadre!Mexico
- 🇵🇷 ¡Qué revolú!Puerto Rico
More from Argentina
- chehey, dude
- rereally, super
- bondibus
- postafor real, seriously
- al pedofor nothing; idle
- ¡Ni en pedo!No way! / Not a chance!
- bardomess, trouble
- truchofake, knock-off
Songs from Argentina
- Lamento Boliviano · Enanitos VerdesLevel A2
- Color Esperanza · Diego TorresLevel A2
- De Música Ligera · Soda StereoLevel B1
- Adán y Eva · Paulo LondraLevel B1
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