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Tag: sacar

Definitions tagged sacar in the street dictionary.

Echar fly

To kick someone out or get rid of an unwanted person. (The term refers to an old brand of insecticide called Flit. Although spelled like the English word fly, it is pronounced flee in Argentina).

He came to bother me at my office and I le eché fly.

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Sacar del buche

To snatch an opportunity away from someone, or to interject in a conversation by saying exactly what the other person was just about to say. (Buche refers to the crop of a bird or a person's gullet, suggesting the words were already on their way out).

- On Sundays, for me... - Sundays are for taking a nap. - That is it! Me lo sacaste del buche.

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heparinizar

The act of drawing blood and putting it into a small tube for laboratory analysis (refers to the anticoagulant heparin used in blood collection vials).

Hemoglobin test.

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Birlar

To snatch or swipe something from someone's hands, often leaving them looking foolish. To beat someone to the punch or get the jump on them by taking something first.

That son of a bitch birló my girlfriend.

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Bola Negra

The act of a group collectively shunning or ditching a person, usually someone considered a lambón (a freeloader or sycophant). The group often uses la nebula (acting vague or creating a distraction to escape the person).

Ex 1: That guy got bola negra for being a freeloader. Ex 2: Let's give that dude bola negra, he is just a puppet.

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