What does “bajón” mean in Argentine Spanish?
Sandwich pizzero para el mejor bajón
C1 Spanish listening practice · Rioplatense Spanish · Picked for people who know a lot
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.”
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.