Popular Expressions

To ride the horns is a common expression and considered as derogatory nowadays.

The word Allantoso is used in the Dominican Republic to designate a person who is conceited, it is an expression that applies to both men and women.

In urban music slang Bellaca/o is used to designate a sexy and intelligent woman who gives the sensation that reflects Leer mas

Sandungueo is a dance that is closely related to urban music, more specifically reggaeton, and emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Puerto Rico, as a variant of the dances of the Dancehall and Hip hop culture.

Also known as ‘perreo’, reggaeton is a rhythm that has not only made everyone dance, but also many people sing, and very intensely, although often not very well understood, its particular lyrics.

In the slang of the urban genre it refers to when you try to talk to someone and the other person ignores you, avoids you and doesn’t even pay attention to you or changes the subject.

In regeeaton music, it refers to a person who likes to flirt a lot, it is said of a woman who is very loose to perrear.

Suelto -or suelta- como gabete refers, in the slang of reggaetoneros, to be unleashed, live happily or be willing to do anything.

Rebuleo is used in the urban slang of the reggaeton genre, to refer to a fight, a problem or an argument, or also to the uproar of people when many people get together in activity and attitude.

In reggaeton street slang pila means: a lot, to have liveliness, to be smart, awake, intelligent.

In the informal urban slang of the exponents of the reggaeton music genre it refers to doing dirty business, or also to when there are “weird movements”, not legal.

In 1993 the group Proyecto uno released “El Tiburón”, a mix of merengue, hip hop and house with Spanglish lyrics that even now, after its release, continues to be played at the best parties.