A device in the movie The Counselor. It comprises of a loop of alloy wire attached to a small electric motor. The device is thrown around someones neck and yanking the free wire starts the motor. The loops gets smaller and smaller, cutting open the victim's carotid arteries and/or decapitating them.
A Latin American bread similar to a small baguette. It is also used among Mexicans to describe a person who is brown on the outside, but white on the inside. Basically a white washed Mexican. Someone who looks Mexican but acts white.