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lucas
🇨🇴 Spanish slang from Colombia
What does “lucas” mean?
thousand pesos
Example
“El almuerzo cuesta quince lucas.”
Lunch costs fifteen thousand pesos.
Good to know
One 'luca' = 1,000 pesos. Also used in Chile and Peru.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: mil pesos
Heard in a conversation
A coffee downtown
Valen ¡De una! Conozco un café muy chévere en el centro.
Let's do it! I know a really nice café downtown.
Andrés ¿Es caro? Solo tengo cinco lucas.
Is it expensive? I've only got five thousand pesos.
Valen No, el tinto vale dos lucas. ¡Pero pilas, no des papaya con el celular!
No, a coffee is two thousand. But careful, don't flash your phone around!
💵 How other countries say “a thousand (pesos)”
- 🇨🇱 lucaChile
- 🇦🇷 lucaArgentina
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