What does "pichear" mean?

To ignore someone — to leave them on read.

Country: 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
Say it: pee-cheh-AR
Register: Friends & informal

How it's actually used

*Me picheó* means he ignored me. *Pichea eso* means forget about it, let it go. Heavily used in texting and all over reggaeton lyrics, which is how it spread off the island.

Examples

Me dejó en visto, me picheó. He left me on read, totally ignored me.
Pichea eso, no vale la pena. Forget it, it’s not worth it.

Where it comes from

From English baseball "pitch" — you pitch it away from you. Baseball runs deep in Puerto Rican Spanish.

Before you say it

Casual and young. An accusation when aimed at someone, a shrug when aimed at a situation.

Now actually use it out loud

Reading a definition isn't the same as saying it to someone. Lingo Kaiava is a voice tutor set to Puerto Rican Spanish — it uses pichear the way locals do, corrects you in the moment, and never "fixes" the way real people actually talk into textbook Puerto Rican Spanish.