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Extremely high frequency throughout. Between close male friends it can be affectionate or simply emphatic. Directed at enemies or in anger it is a serious insult. Tone and context are everything.

'Bote' as 'jail' is specifically Mexican colloquial usage. The full phrase 'estar en el bote' or 'salir del bote' is very natural in everyday speech about someone incarcerated.

'Madrear' means to beat someone up physically. Derives from 'madre', which in Mexican slang has a wide range of intensifying and vulgar uses. Used bluntly to describe physical violence.

'Pedo' literally means 'fart' but in Mexican slang it functions as a versatile noun meaning 'issue', 'problem', 'situation', or 'point'. 'El pedo es que' introduces the crux of a problem, similar to 'el asunto es que'.

The imperative of 'reaccionar' is used idiomatically to tell someone to stop being passive, paralyzed, or in denial. It carries urgency and mild frustration from the speaker.

Fixed idiom meaning something was very easy to accomplish. Equivalent to 'very easy' or 'a piece of cake' in English. Natural across most age groups in casual Mexican speech.