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Tag: tirania

Definitions tagged tirania in the street dictionary.

Zaga

A synonym for a dictatorship or tyranny (Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was the military dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961).

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's zaga gave a lot of people a hard time.

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Anónimo

Cepillo

A Volkswagen Beetle. This car model became popular starting in the 1960s (the name literally means brush, referring to the vehicle's rounded shape).

The henchmen of the Trujillo dictatorship carried out their crimes while driving cepillos (the secret police famously used these cars for kidnappings and surveillance).

Automatically translated from Spanish

República Dominicanaby Anónimo