Dominican slang for a snitch or a rat, referring to someone who can't keep their mouth shut and reports anyone who messes up or breaks a rule.
1: Yuderka is a CHIVATA, I was hooking up with Mariant and she went and told my wife. 2: They chivatearon me to the DICAN (the Dominican anti-narcotics police).
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).
A term originally used for informants who snitched on opponents of the Trujillo regime. Today, it refers to a snitch, a tattle-tale, or a big-mouthed gossip who cannot keep a secret (Rafael Trujillo was a dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961).
- That guy is such a gossip, he tells everyone everything. - He is just a total calie.