pinchar
🇨🇺 Spanish slang from Cuba
What does “pinchar” mean?
to work
Example
“Mañana tengo que pinchar temprano.”
I have to work early tomorrow.
Good to know
Elsewhere 'pinchar' = to prick or puncture. 'La pincha' = the job.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💼 Work
The textbook way to say it: trabajar
Heard in a conversation
A lost phone at the beach
Lisandra Eres tremendo socio. ¿Y después cogemos botella pa' La Habana?
You're a great mate. And after that we hitch a ride to Havana?
Yunior Dale, pero mañana tengo que pinchar temprano, así que nada de fiesta.
Sure, but tomorrow I have to work early, so no party.
Lisandra Chévere. Y de hoy en adelante el celular va amarrado a mi muñeca.
Cool. And from today on the phone is tied to my wrist.
🔨 How other countries say “to work”
- 🇪🇸 currarSpain
- 🇨🇴 camellarColombia
- 🇦🇷 laburarArgentina
- 🇲🇽 chambearMexico
- 🇵🇪 chambearPeru
- 🇻🇪 camellarVenezuela
More from Cuba
- jinetero / jineterahustler who works the tourists
- la pinchajob, work
- por la izquierdaunder the table, off the books
- cuentapropistaself-employed (private business owner)
- sociolismogetting things done through friends (a pun on socialism)
- paladarprivate family-run restaurant
- pasar trabajoto have a hard time, to struggle
- aserebuddy, bro
Songs from Cuba
- Bailando · Enrique IglesiasLevel A2
- Chan Chan · Buena Vista Social ClubLevel A2
- La Gozadera · Gente de Zona, Marc AnthonyLevel A2
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