TUBO
A slang term for a cell phone or mobile device (originally referring to the handset of a telephone).
Can I borrow your TUBO to call my mom?
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Tag: móvil
Definitions tagged móvil in the street dictionary.
Bolivianotero
A field reporter or broadcast correspondent who conducts interviews and reports on-site, usually for television or radio programs. (In Argentina, they are commonly associated with gossip shows where they wait for celebrities outside events.)
At the theater exit, all the noteros from the gossip shows were there.
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ArgentinaMovilero
A field reporter for radio or television who broadcasts on-site from a mobile unit. (In Argentina, the news van or mobile unit is referred to as a movil)
The arrival of the Rolling Stones brought hundreds of movileros from all over the country to La Plata.
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Celu
A casual shortening of the word celular used to refer to a mobile phone.
Call me on my celu, I will have it switched on.
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Cobani
A slang term for the police in Argentina, particularly common in the province of Cordoba.
Let's go, the Cobani are coming.
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Singulai
A term used by people from the rural countryside of the Cibao region for a cell phone (the word is a local phonetic variation of the Spanish word celular).
Tatico! Look, they are calling you on the Singulai! Watch out Pepo, here comes Tatico, run Tatico because the call is from far away, Whoa!
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