Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien Glossary

gringo

(in Spanish-speaking countries and contexts, chiefly in the Americas) a person, especially an American, who is not Hispanic or Latino.

Y Tu Mamá También

The film's title and Spanish for "And your mother too"

Backpacker

Someone who travels or hikes carrying their belongings in a backpack.

Cote d'Azur

The French Riviera, the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

Wasted

Slang for tremendously drunk.

Lacan

A dissident French psychoanalyst.

Preppie

typical of a student or graduate of an expensive preparatory school, especially with reference to their style of dress.

Batmobile

The fictional automobile driven by the comic book character, Batman.

E

Short for ecstasy, an amphetamine taken recreationally, a party drug.

Aztec

relating to the Aztecs, the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

Cheech and Chong

Comic duo of Richard 'Cheech' Marino and Tommy Chong. The pair rose to stardom in the 1970s and 1980s for their widely acclaimed motion pictures and their blatantly bold stand-up comedy acts that openly referred to marijuana and other drugs.

aura

In spiritualism, a supposed emanation surrounding the body of a living creature and regarded as an essential part of the individual.

shareholder

Someone who owns part of a company.

Caguamas

loggerheaded turtle, in Spanish.

mariachi

denoting a type of traditional Mexican folk music, typically performed by a small group of strolling musicians dressed in native costume.

Salma Hayek

A Mexican film actress and model.

trippy

resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug.

astral

relating to a supposed nonphysical realm of existence to which various psychic and paranormal phenomena are ascribed.

spliff

A cigarette containing marijuana and tobacco.

deflower

Take someone's virginity.

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