cocos
🇵🇪 Spanish slang from Peru
What does “cocos” mean?
US dollars
Example
“El pasaje cuesta quinientos cocos.”
The ticket costs five hundred dollars.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: dólares
More from Peru
- cachueloside job, gig
- misiobroke
- hacer chanchato chip in, to pool money
- cachuelearto do odd jobs on the side
- por recibosas a freelancer (billing with receipts)
- sencillosmall change
- lucaone sol (Peru’s currency)
- estar agujato be broke
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