What does “bajón” mean in Argentine Spanish?

Sandwich pizzero para el mejor bajón

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C1 Spanish listening practice · Rioplatense Spanish · Curated for advanced learners

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bajón
Rioplatense low-mood/craving slang
a low mood, a letdown, or a sudden craving for comfort food

Bajón is Rioplatense slang — from Argentina and Uruguay — for a sudden low mood, a letdown, or a late-night craving for comfort food. In this recipe clip, “opciones rápidas para bajonear” means quick options for when you’ve got the munchies, and the fix on offer is a pizza-dough sandwich stuffed with cheese.

The word comes from bajo, “low” or “down,” turned into a noun for the feeling itself; the related verb bajonearse means “to get down/depressed.” It’s flexible slang — it can describe anything from disappointing news to a post-party crash — but its most common everyday use, as here, is simply “food that fixes a bad mood.”

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this C1 Spanish listening practice listening practice?

81.2%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Spanish words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Spanish.

General Spanish frequency

75.2%
Top 1,000
81.2%
Top 2,000
91.1%
Top 5,000

Spoken Spanish frequency

88.2%
Top 1,000
94.1%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Spanish data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s C1 level.

pomelo
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
grapefruit
sandwichito
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
small sandwich

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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