la shopping
🇨🇺 Spanish slang from Cuba
What does “la shopping” mean?
shop selling in hard currency
Example
“El aceite solo se encuentra en la shopping.”
You can only find oil at the hard-currency shop.
Good to know
From English "shopping"; always feminine in Cuba.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: tienda en divisas
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- baromoney; a peso
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- chavitothe old convertible peso (CUC)
- estar en la fuácatato be flat broke
- jinetero / jineterahustler who works the tourists
- la remesamoney sent home by family abroad
- por la izquierdaunder the table, off the books
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