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gacho in English

bad, nasty, not nice (informal) adjective Latin America

Number 4,726 of the 5,000 most used words in Latin American Spanish.

Example

El tiempo está gacho, mejor no salimos en lancha.

The weather looks bad, we'd better not go out in the boat.

In Spain

At this place in the list: chungo (dodgy, iffy (informal)).

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