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What does "¿qué bolá?" mean?

What's up? — the Cuban greeting.

Country
🇨🇺 Cuba
Say it
keh boh-LAH
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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

Universal in Cuba among friends, usually followed by asere. The reply is often "aquí, en la lucha" — here, in the struggle — which is its own small window into Cuban daily life.

Examples

What other countries say

DR says klk, Mexico says ¿qué onda?, Colombia says ¿qué más?, Venezuela says ¿qué pasó?

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