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Tag: personas

Definitions tagged personas in the street dictionary.

Guaro

A demonym for people from the state of Lara, used by locals as a friendly way to address or refer to one another. (Lara is a state in western Venezuela).

The guaro on the corner is very handsome.

Automatically translated from Spanish

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indole

A person's or animal's temperament or disposition. The inherent nature or type of something that distinguishes it from others.

All his friends were of an open and tolerant indole. The company ended up folding due to problems of an economic indole.

Automatically translated from Spanish

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moxo

A person who is obsessed with striking ridiculous poses in photos, convinced they look great, and has the nerve to share them all over social media. (Refers to a Mexican subculture characterized by tacky vanity and exaggerated selfie angles common in the early social media era).

See: Facebook.

Automatically translated from Spanish

Méxicoby Anónimo

tolitario

A government that is tolerant or permissive toward its citizens (a malapropism likely confusing the words tolerant and totalitarian).

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's government was not tolitario (Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was a dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961).

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby lisbeth