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Definitions tagged english in the street dictionary.

Inglés de Muelle

Broken, self-taught English picked up on the fly, typically used by street hustlers or beach gigolos to communicate with tourists. (In the Dominican Republic, a sanky panky is a man who works tourist beaches to seduce foreign women for financial gain or a visa).

Hey man, yupikinglis?

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Individuo

Picar el English

To speak broken English by winging it and using whatever words or sounds come to mind, despite having little to no actual fluency. It is a play on the English word speak, describing the act of hacking away at the language.

-- Watagatapitusberry? -- What? (Watagatapitusberry is a famous nonsense phrase from a Dominican urban song used to mock the way people speak fake English).

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Individuo