Meaning & use

fuego

adjective·Everyday

Extremely good or impressive; excellent, used as slang and borrowed from the Spanish word for 'fire.'

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Everyone agreed the new track was fuego from the very first beat.

"That outfit is fuego," she said, admiring his new jacket.

A note on using this word

Fuego is informal slang popularized through social media and music, used much like 'fire' is used the same way in English.

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