a traditional Cuban dish of rice and black beans cooked all together

small lot of land for growing domestic produce

to be all set, to have everything ready

naked

a little boy

a brave person

fanatic of the communist system in Cuba

snitch, informer

a wooden homemade sled / go-kart contraption kids in Cuba use to race, also used to transport stuff, like a small wagon

impatient and very ill-tempered old people

lie

men’s underwear

the switch that controls the electricity in a house or building, from the English “cut out”

Small, narrow boat

nosy, intrusive, meddlesome, a gossip

a big shoe

a kid

a juice or shake made by mixing water (or milk), sugar and soursop fruit

it is said when a police officer shows people his badge to enter without problems or to skip a line, or receive some other advantage

vulgar, crude, coarse

1) a barber blade 2) boasting about oneself

a fag, a queer

dried peas

homemade rum of poor quality, also written as chispa e’ tren

to snitch on, to denounce

a traditional soup made with vegetables, fruit, meat and many other things, boiled for hours and served hot

women’s hot pants, extremely short pants

a smart-ass

booze, any alcoholic drink

1) a slide 2) the area between the buttocks