Dang / shoot — a mild expression of frustration or surprise.
Safe in any company. Used across Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile with slightly different weight in each.
A softened stand-in for a much cruder word, the way "shoot" covers for something stronger in English.
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