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Tag: barrios

Definitions tagged barrios in the street dictionary.

Tenares

A small town in the Hermanas Mirabal province of the Dominican Republic. It is characterized as a rural area with frequent power outages, an ineffective mayor, and a reputation for having the wildest street fights between women (síndico is the Dominican term for a municipal mayor).

Damn dude, Tenares is a rough place.

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby liss

los monos

Slang used in the neighborhoods of Santo Domingo to refer to the police. It functions as a code word to tip off others about their presence without the officers noticing. (In the Dominican Republic, the term refers to the grey color of the National Police uniforms).

El Malcriao: Run, run, los monos are coming. Din la Para: Don't worry about it Malcriao, I have my piece right here. El Malcriao: Din, you know you have a criminal record, don't go acting like a fool.

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Anónimo