What's up? — the Panamanian greeting.
The standard casual greeting among younger Panamanians, usually answered with "offi" or "todo bien."
Reversed-syllable slang: "pasó" flipped into "xopa." Panama has a whole tradition of inverting words this way.
Cuba says ¿qué bolá?, DR says klk, Mexico says ¿qué onda?, Colombia says ¿qué más?
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