chamba
🇲🇽 Spanish slang from Mexico
What does “chamba” mean?
job, work
Example
“Encontré chamba en un restaurante.”
I found a job at a restaurant.
Good to know
Also very common in Peru and Central America. Verb: chambear (to work).
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💼 Work
The textbook way to say it: trabajo
Heard in a conversation
I got the job!
Karla ¡Güey, no manches, me dieron la chamba! 😭🎉
dude no way I got the job!!! 😭🎉
Dani ¿¡Neta!? 😱 ¡Qué padre, Karla, felicidades!
SERIOUSLY?? 😱 that's awesome Karla, congrats!!
💼 How other countries say “job, work”
- 🇪🇸 curroSpain
- 🇦🇷 laburoArgentina
- 🇨🇴 camelloColombia
- 🇨🇱 pegaChile
- 🇨🇺 pinchaCuba · Verb: pinchar (to work).
- 🇵🇪 chambaPeru · Same as in Mexico.
More from Mexico
- chambearto work
- godínoffice worker, nine-to-fiver
- horas nalgahours spent at work just to be seen
- la quincenapayday (paid every two weeks)
- talachagrunt work, the boring hard part
- changarroa small shop, a little business
- echar la huevato laze around, to slack off
- correrto fire (someone from a job)
Songs from Mexico
- La Bamba · Ritchie ValensLevel A2
- Bidi Bidi Bom Bom · SelenaLevel A2
- Como La Flor · SelenaLevel A2
- Querida · Juan GabrielLevel A2
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