Definitions tagged billetes in the street dictionary.
Refers to money in the form of bills, coins, or digital funds. (The word literally translates to silver and is the standard informal term for money in the region.)
I need to withdraw some plata from the ATM. / Bring me the plata you owe me.
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The government practice of printing unbacked money to cover its budget deficit. (Refers to the central bank's printing press, which is famously associated with the hyperinflation of the late 1980s in Peru).
During Alan Garcia's first administration, the runaway inflation was partly due to the maquinita.
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A common slang term for money. While its origins are archaic, it is the standard way to refer to cash or dough in the Dominican Republic. (Refers to the cuarto de real, an old Spanish copper coin).
You do not have any Cuartos.
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Cold hard cash or money in hand (in the Dominican Republic, this specific slang refers to physical currency rather than the common sexual meaning used elsewhere).
If I win the lottery, I want mine given to me cachondo.
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An Argentine slang term for money or cash. The plural guitas refers to cents or small change, used in expressions to describe things as very cheap or to suggest that something is never quite finished or perfect (the peso is the national currency of Argentina).
No amount of guita is enough. It costs 5 guitas. There are always 5 guitas missing for the peso.
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The six most expensive private universities in the Dominican Republic where wealthy people and snobs go to show off. Students from these schools are stereotyped as being soft and needing security guards to protect them. (The list includes UNIBE, UTESA, INTEC, APEC, UNPHU, and PUCMM; guachiman is a local term for a watchman or guard.)
Why spend so much dough on those G6 schools when we have our beloved UASD for free?
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