luca
🇨🇱 Spanish slang from Chile
What does “luca” mean?
1,000 pesos
Example
“¿Me prestai una luca?”
Can you lend me a thousand pesos?
Good to know
'Prestai' is the Chilean form of 'prestas'.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: mil pesos
Heard in a conversation
Sopaipillas in the rain
Fran Obvio. Al tiro, que el carrito de la esquina cierra temprano.
Obviously. Right now, the cart on the corner closes early.
Seba ¡Pucha! Tengo una luca no más. ¿Me prestai algo?
Darn! I've only got a thousand pesos. Can you lend me some?
Fran Ya, yo te invito. Pero con pebre, que si no es fome.
OK, my treat. But with pebre, otherwise it's boring.
💸 How other countries say “money, cash”
- 🇲🇽 lanaMexico
- 🇪🇸 pastaSpain
- 🇦🇷 guitaArgentina
- 🇨🇴 plataColombia
- 🇵🇷 chavosPuerto Rico
- 🇨🇺 baroCuba
- 🇻🇪 realesVenezuela
More from Chile
- hacer una vacato chip in, to pool money
- estar patoto be broke
- gambaa hundred pesos
- paloa million pesos
- chauchaa pittance, small change
- mano de guaguastingy (lit. "baby's hand", never opens)
- rascacheap, low-quality, tacky
- pegoteside job, a gig
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