I just got done watching Scarface again for the bajillionth time. Not because it’s my favorite movie, it just gets watched a lot around me.
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What is the correct spelling of “Yay-yo”, the way Tony said it?
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Is Yayo slang, or the regular equivelent of “Cocaine”? Is “Ya-Yo” specifically Cuban in origin?
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I heard Michael Ian Black on “I love the 80’s” make a joke where he pronounced it “Koe-kai-na”, is that a Spanish way of pronouncing Cocaine, or did he make that up?
What are some other spanish words for cocaine? Thanks!
Cocaine = cocaína. I’m not entirely sure about yayo, it probably is street slang for cocaine, because yayo and yaya in Spanish is also an informal way of saying “grandpa” or “grandma”.
Its Spanish slang and its spelled “llello”.
just a guess, but…
In the US coke is often called snow, llello is similar to hielo which is the spanish word for ice.
Another slang word for cocaine, at least in Mexico, is “perico” as in “parrot.” Marihuana is also called “rooster.”
There is this narco-corrido that goes . .“I lead a crazy life between a rooster and a parrot.”
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I call Al Pacino “the screamer” because the man screams and yells in all of his movies. It does not matter if he is a good guy or a bad guy, the screamer has to shout his lines as loud as humanly possible to get his point across.
He must have been to the greasy Italian yelling acting school.
We don’t take kindly to ethnic slurs around here.