Definitions tagged calie in the street dictionary.
A gossip or a snitch: someone who cannot keep their mouth shut. (In the Dominican Republic, this often describes neighbors who are always watching and talking about everyone else's business).
Most of the people in my neighborhood are chismosas.
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A busybody or meddler who keeps track of everyone else's business while ignoring their own.
Neighborhoods are full of lleva vidas.
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A term or expression specific to the Dominican Republic, used to communicate in casual or popular language.
To describe a man who eats a lot, people say: that guy is a buki. For a snitch: That guy is a calie (originally referring to secret police informants).
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A snitch or a rat, someone who cannot keep their mouth shut or keep a secret. (This term was popularized by the Dominican hip-hop artist El Lapiz Conciente and is widely used in urban slang).
Damn, that guy is such a tochiva.
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