Helplessness and Ice Hockey

Used with or without a direct object. 'Meterse coca' means to snort coke; 'seguir metiéndose' means to keep using drugs. Completely standard vocabulary in drug-related speech, not particularly vulgar.

'Rollo' literally means 'roll' or 'spiel'; 'seguir el rollo' means to go with what someone else is doing or saying, without necessarily believing it. Very common in everyday informal speech.

In this dialogue used by a character with a Latin American background. The strength and exact shade of meaning shifts across registers; here it functions as a contemptuous dismissal.

Usually said in mild irritation to someone cracking jokes at an inappropriate moment. 'Gracioso' literally means funny or amusing.

The primary informal term of address or third-person reference between peers. Completely neutral in tone, equivalent to 'mate', 'guy', 'gal'. Absent in formal contexts.

One of the most common Spanish vulgar exclamations of frustration or shock. Literally scatological; in practice it functions exactly as an English speaker would say 'for fuck's sake'. Appears frequently in colloquial speech under stress.

From 'burro' (donkey). A 'burrada' is something said or done that is stupid, cruel, or excessively harsh. Also used positively: 'una burrada de dinero' = a ton of money.