Skip to content

Tag: estacion

Definitions tagged estacion in the street dictionary.

payola

Giving money to a radio DJ so they play a specific song or artist. It is the bribe that new artists often have to pay to get some airtime and become known.

A: How did you get them to play your whole album? B: Well, payola, what else?

Automatically translated from Spanish

Panamáby Rita.AP

paradero

A designated or informal spot where buses and other public transit stop to pick up or drop off passengers (in Peru, these often lack official signage and occur wherever a driver decides to pull over).

In Lima, every corner is treated like a paradero. That is why there is so much traffic chaos.

Automatically translated from Spanish

Perúby HUVE84

Bombero

In addition to meaning firefighter, in the Dominican Republic this is the term for a gas station attendant (a gas station is locally called a bomba).

The bomberos always have money for making change.

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Individuo