In Colombia it is a popular way to call crickets, grasshoppers or chapulines. Way to call lobsters. The term is widely used in the Departments of Huila and Tolima. It's also a colloquial way of calling cops that because of the color of their uniforms. I make it clear to John that the Saviba Indians adapted that word as their own because of acculturation. You can also say chapolas (chapola is the way to call a very small plant of coffee ready for transplant, coffee seedling).
