A neighborhood bum who stays high all day, looks scruffy and skinny, wears the same clothes every day, and refuses to work. (Refers to someone addicted to crack, derived from the word for pipe).
That guy who is always hanging out on the corner, everyone thinks he is crazy, but drugs and alcohol fucked up his nervous system and he is good for nothing now.
Refers to a person who habitually drinks mixtures of ethyl alcohol with water and smokes cheap cigarettes to take the edge off the harsh liquid. It is a term used for street dwellers who consume these dangerous, homemade concoctions in public. (The name comes from pipa, a slang term for the container or the alcohol mixture itself).
Don't walk down that block at this hour, all the piperos hang out there to drink and beg people for cigarettes.
A heavy drinker or someone who is frequently intoxicated. It is used to label someone who is constantly drunk or spends their life boozing (in Colombia, this often refers to those who consume cheap or industrial alcohol known as pipa).
No way that guy is going to work, he has been hanging out as a pipero on the corner since sunrise!
A derogatory term for a homeless person who habitually drinks industrial ethyl alcohol or very strong, cheap moonshine. It refers to an indigent person with a severe addiction to these substances.
Yesterday I had to take a detour from the block because there was a group of piperos causing trouble on the corner.
A derogatory term for a person who habitually drinks rubbing alcohol or industrial spirits mixed with soda or powdered juice to get drunk for very little money. It is typically used to describe homeless individuals who consume these dangerous concoctions (fresco is a Colombian term for a cheap, fruit-flavored drink).
Be careful in that alleyway, at this hour it gets full of piperos drinking rubbing alcohol with juice and they get aggressive.
A driver who operates a tank truck, known as a pipa, used to transport and deliver liquids like water or fuel. (In many parts of Mexico, residents rely on a pipero to refill home cisterns when the municipal water supply is cut off).
We already called the pipero to come refill the cistern because we do not have a single drop of water left in the house.
A derogatory term used in El Salvador for a crack cocaine addict. The name comes from their use of homemade pipes to smoke the drug, typically in marginalized areas.
We better find another way to get to the market, because there is always a group of piperos on that corner looking for someone to ask for pisto (a local term for money).
A private hangout spot or clubhouse for close-knit groups of friends in the Navarre region (specifically Lerín) to eat, drink, and party, often involving drinking kalimotxo (red wine and cola) and smoking joints. (In northern Spain, these lifelong groups of friends, called cuadrillas, often rent or own these spaces for private social gatherings).
All us friends are going to dinner at the pipero because we have a barbecue and a non-stop party.