Definitions tagged abuso in the street dictionary.
Literally ticks that feed on animals. It is used to describe moochers or leeches who cling to others to take advantage of them.
Stop being such a Garrapata, I am not giving you money today. / That guy is a real Garrapata, he cannot be in our group.
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A severe physical beating or thrashing carried out by one or more people.
A: Did you hear Pedro got a tunda downtown so they could rob him? B: Yeah, I heard he has a broken rib and they knocked a tooth out.
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To give someone a black eye by hitting them hard. (Likely derived from the marble game term meaning to chip or dent a marble).
Don't mess with that guy, he's got a heavy hand. He's going to quiñar un ojo. | The boy came home with a little ojito quiñado, I'm really worried.
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An extremely mean or inconsiderate person who takes advantage of others or behaves in a cruel way (In Venezuela, calling someone a rat is a standard way to label them a jerk or a scumbag).
Dude, que rata you are, don't you see this is a hospital and you shouldn't smoke! / Man, que rata, you went too far dude! How could you tie his shoes like that?
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A synonym for a nerd or know-it-all, used for someone who knows a lot. It is mostly derogatory and used by people who reject or resent the person out of envy.
Come here, sabelotodo, we want you to tell us what to do with this. / Doesn't the class sabelotodo know what a joke is? Ha! / Hey sabelotodo, see if you will do my exam tomorrow too.
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To suggest that someone is high or has lost their mind because they are acting in a crazy, irrational, or inappropriate way. (The reference to green implies smoking raw or potent marijuana).
Dude, Te la fumaste verde? You can not just drop your pants here. / Te la fumaste verde? What were you thinking, taking your dad's car!
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An expression of annoyance or frustration used when someone is being pushy, repetitive, or asking for too much (Common in the Andean regions of Venezuela).
Hey Monica, can you lend me your notebook again and I will give it back in two days? ... Ala pero usted!
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An expression used to signal having reached a breaking point or being fed up with a situation, or to announce the end of a session, meeting, or workday. (It relates to the idiom Hasta aquí nos trajo el río, which suggests that a journey or the current has come to an end.)
Hasta aquí llegamos, I cannot take it anymore. Well, hasta aquí llegamos, see you tomorrow.
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A phrase used to signal a final limit or a departure. It is used to announce one is leaving or to warn someone that they have reached the end of the line and can go no further.
Well, I am off, hasta aquí me trajo el río. Enough, man, hasta aquí te trajo el río.
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An intersection in Santo Domingo that is the spitting image of the Dominican way of life: chaos, disorder, anarchy, noise, corruption, and a lack of civic duty. (This is a major commercial area in the capital known for extreme congestion and informal street vendors).
Duarte con París is the symbol of the Dominican character.
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1. A massive beatdown or a brawl between several people. 2. Heavy wear and tear or excessive use of an object.
Did you see the fight at the basketball game? They were giving each other piña like crazy. The toner in that copier needs to be changed: it has taken a lot of piña.
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A boss, manager, or company that exploits or overworks employees. (The word literally means slave driver, used to describe an employer who treats workers as if they were enslaved).
Get out of there, that corporate group is the most negrero in the country.
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When someone single-mindedly targets, picks on, or throws shade at a specific person, usually out of spite or a sense of superiority.
He assigned me about 10 work orders all at once just because le ha cogido conmigo.
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A cynical description of an oligarchy where a small elite rules solely for their own benefit and their inner circle, while wielding absolute authority.
some countries (have) democracia moderna...
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A university run for endless profit, full of Santa Fe SUVs for corrupt rectors. Access to the fifty-million-peso lab is so restricted that the local news and even this slang site are blocked. You can only use Google, and what for, if you cannot even click the links? All the work of Eligio Cabrera, another bastard, the king of INTEC, who does whatever he feels like. It is a university where students are destined to suffer, run by a group of sadists with ruined dreams who will do anything to make you drop out or fail. You will have panic attacks about Week 9 for the rest of your life. Every three months you will breathe for two weeks and then go back to suffering. Tuition credits keep getting more expensive, every major is basically math, and the whole point is to screw people over or get screwed. Everyone who enters says, why the hell did I sign up for this? Those who leave say, damn, I am finally out. They go crazy and all that. (INTEC is a prominent Dominican university known for its high-pressure trimester system where Week 9 is the notorious final exam period).
They pay Droopy to fail people, they sent Piedra from Jupiter to teach classes, Gonzalez from the animal kingdom, Julio Perez from Wonderland, and Ramon Ramirez from the Stone Age. All those people are bums. The only one who is truly tough is Cesar Miguel Milan McCabe; there are no words for him, he is a king who is both bad and good, he is the king. I forgot that one of my best friends punched the vice-rector because he insulted and intentionally provoked him. Go figure. Next trimester they are going to raise the cost of credits at INTEC. It is business as usual.
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Refers to the Loyola Polytechnic Institute in San Cristobal. It is seen as a place where nightmares come true, home to malicious teachers whose goal is to make things harder for the new generation than it was for them. It is a place where people cry spontaneously, where even the brightest students fail, and getting good grades is like asking a lame man to walk: it is a favorite local house of torture. (The Instituto Politecnico Loyola is a notoriously rigorous Jesuit technical school in San Cristobal).
- Kid, what is wrong with you? - Nothing, bro... I just got out of Loyola... - Why the long face? - Oh man... I had class with Uribe.
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A man who commits pedophilia: a man who has sexual relations with children.
Those sexual creeps who mess around with underage girls.
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A multi-million dollar project built in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, without any justifiable reason, which honestly would have served a better purpose if the money had been used as toilet paper (refers to the Santo Domingo Metro, which many locals view as a vanity project that ignored more urgent infrastructure needs).
In the Dominican Republic we have no power, we have no food, we have no money, we have no education, but WE HAVE A METRO.
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