- Apargar velas – to have a birthday
- Avionazo – an accident in an airplane
- Boquear – to eat Costa Rican hors d’oeuvres (appetizers)
- Cuidapalos – slang for goal keeper in soccer. The correct terms are guardametas or portero.
- Empanzado – to be very full after eating
- El finde – weekend and short version of el fin de semana
- El papá de los tomates – a person who is a big shot
- Jamonear – to bully someone
- Jamonero – a bully
- Dejarla ir – to let something get away like a game you are winning.
- Llevarse puta a alguien – to have something bad happen to someone (vulgar)
- Pargazo – a lazy person
- Parguear – the act of being lazy
- Pellejearla – to work very hard
- Persona todoterreno – a person who is versatile or who is good at many things
- Policleto – a policeman on a bicycle
- Sacarle el menudo a alguien – to surprise someone
- Sacarse la rifa – to have something good or bad happen
- Soyla – a person who has to do all of the work
