pibe – "kid", a common term for boy or, in more recent times, for young man. It comes from Italian word "pivello". quilombo – "racket", "ruckus", "mess"; also slang for "brothel" (from the Kimbundu word kilombo, a Maroon settlement). urso – a heavyset guy. It comes from the Italian "orso" (bear). yorugua – "Uruguayan", (vesre for uruguayo) . Verbs cerebrar – "to think something up" (from cerebro, "brain") engrupir – "to fool someone" (maybe from Italian ingroppare, "to fuck", but also used in modern European and Brazilian Portuguese slang) garpar – "to pay with money" (vesre for pagar, "to pay") junar – "to look closely", "to check out"/ "to know" (from Caló junar, "to hear") laburar – "to work" (from Italian lavorare, "to work") manyar – "to eat"/ "to know" (from Venetian and Lombard magnar - Italian mangiare) morfar – "to eat" (from French argot morfer, "to eat") pescar – "to understand", "to get a grip" (vesre from the Italian capisce?, "Do you understand?") associated to the Spanish verb pescar ("to fish") Interjections che - appellative to introduce a conversational intervention or to call out, translatable as "hey!", "listen to me!", "so", "as I was telling you!" and other ways of addressing someone. The expression identifies Argentinians to other Spanish speakers, thus Ernesto "Che" Guevara for the Cubans (Guaraní, Venetian and Valencian origins have been propounded). ¡guarda! - "look out!", "be careful!" (from the Italian guarda!, "look!") Modern slang Since the 1970s, it is a matter of debate whether newer additions to the slang of Buenos Aires qualify as lunfardo. Traditionalists argue that lunfardo must have a link to the argot of the old underworld, to tango lyrics, or to racetrack slang. Others maintain that the colloquial language of Buenos Aires is lunfardo by definition. Some examples of modern talk: gomas (lit. "tires") – "tits", woman's breasts maza (lit. "mace" or "sledgehammer") – "superb" curtir (lit. "to tan leather") – "to dig", "to be knowledgeable about", "to be involved in". Also "to fuck". curtir fierros can mean both "to be into car mechanics" or "to be into firearms". Fierro is the Old Spanish form of hierro ("iron"). In Argentine parlance, fierro can mean a firearm or anything related to metals and mechanics (for example a racing car) zafar – "to scrape out of", "to get off the hook", "to barely get by", etc. Zafar is a standard Spanish verb (originally