gamba
🇨🇱 Spanish slang from Chile
What does “gamba” mean?
a hundred pesos
Example
“¿Me prestai una gamba para el pan?”
Can you lend me a hundred for bread?
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: cien pesos
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