Definitions tagged metido in the street dictionary.
To cut in line or sneak into a place or event without permission (in Argentina, businesses commonly use a ticket system where customers must take a number to be served).
Hey, you colaste, we were here before you. You have to take a number to be served.
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A phrase used to tell someone to mind their own business and stay out of a conversation where they do not belong. It indicates that an outsider's opinion carries no weight. (The expression refers to the expectation that spectators in games like card matches remain as silent and inert as wooden posts.)
- I think that... - No, no, no. Los de afuera son de palo. Don't meddle.
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An expression used when someone stands in front of you and blocks your view. It sarcastically implies that because the person is not made of glass (like the child of a glassmaker might be), you cannot see through them.
Hey, what are you, hijo del vidriero? Move, you are not letting me see the TV.
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An annoying, meddlesome, or persistent person who gets in the way or makes things difficult. It refers to someone being like a stone in one's path or shoe.
- Jose called last night. - Ugh, what a Piedra! What did he want?
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Someone who butts into other people's conversations. The term refers to how the person gets hooked like a fish into a discussion that does not involve them.
- What is happening is... (interruption) - And why are you jumping in, pescado?
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An unwanted or awkward third party accompanying a couple (the term likens the extra person to a musician providing background music for the couple's romantic scene).
I am not going because I do not want to be a violinista. / Leave them alone, or do you want to look like a violinista?
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A vulgar or trashy person who enjoys provoking others and starting trouble. (The term derives from arrabal, meaning slum, referring to someone perceived as low-class or aggressive).
'That arrabalero started badmouthing me' or 'Don't pay her any mind, can't you see she is an arrabalera?'
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A meddler who sticks their nose into everyone's business or someone trying to gain fame by riding on the coat-tails of others.
Like when they butt into a conversation, acting like a socroso.
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A busybody or intruder: someone who sticks their nose in where it doesn't belong or enters a space without being invited.
Like when someone enters your house uninvited, or when an INTRUSO butts into a conversation that is none of their business.
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A nosy person or busybody who meddles in things that do not concern them (the Spanish definition uses a common idiom meaning someone is involved in everything except church).
Erison is a mamoto, he reads other people's conversations!
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Used to describe a brown-noser or a kiss-ass in a playful or affectionate way. It is a softened version of the word lambon (In Colombia, a lambon is someone who uses excessive flattery to gain favor).
Mother-in-law, let me help you with the dishes, relax sweetheart, do not be such a lamboncito.
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a busybody or a nosy person.
my wife is such a chute, she checks my phone to see if I have another woman...
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A person who is nosy or a meddler, someone who gets involved in situations where they were not invited or in things that do not concern them. (In Dominican Spanish, words ending in -ado often drop the d in casual speech).
That girl is so Presentao! Yesterday I was talking to my boyfriend and she comes over to eavesdrop on the conversation.
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Eavesdropping or listening in on other people's conversations without being part of them. It refers to a nosy person or busybody who lingers nearby just to overhear gossip and get into other people's business.
1. Kid, get out of here and stop Comiendo boca. 2. Shut up, that guy over there is Comiendo boca.
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A peeping Tom or voyeur, a creep who gets off on secretly watching people in private or intimate moments (in the Dominican Republic, the term refers to looking through a crack or opening).
You're gonna get killed for being a brechero!
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