chela

It also could be a shortening of the phrase mi chela helada, meaning my cold beer.

The drink's name represents maybe the world's best contraction, combining "chela," a slang term for beer; "ada" from "helada," meaning cold; and "mi" for mine — a.k.a "my cold beer."

The most bandied about explanation is that it’s a shortening of mi chela helada or “my cold beer.”

Snapping shrimps are sometimes called pistol shrimps and use their larger claw - the major chela - as a deadly weapon to kill prey and opponents.

The Dalai Lama added, "You Indians are our gurus, we are the chela," meaning "followers."