huacal
A plastic crate used to hold 24 soda bottles or for transporting live chickens.
Fill the huacal with liter bottles, buy me a huacal of soda.
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Definitions tagged huacal in the street dictionary.
República DominicanaHuacalito
A nickname for the main government office building in a city. It originally referred to the Manuel Fernandez Marmol building in Santo Domingo, considered the little brother of the Huacal, another large government office. The term is now used for any major administrative building in provincial cities like Santiago or Barahona. (A huacal is a crate: the name implies the buildings are full of botellas, a Dominican term for ghost employees who collect a salary without working.)
I went to the Huacalito to process the paperwork for the Datsun.
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huacal
A government office or public institution filled with ghost employees who collect a paycheck without doing any work (a huacal is literally a crate, referencing the fact that it is full of "bottles", the local slang for people on the government payroll who do nothing).
Every single government agency is a huacal.
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