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sacarse la daga

sacarse la daga  n.— «“El Chino se saco la daga en el baseball game, when he hit a home run.” “Simon, Meme, era el hero for the day.”…”El Chino (curly hair) did awesome at the baseball game, when he hit a...

Yuma

Yuma  n.— «Tu si te las sabes todas, desde el Rosita de Hornedo hasta lo de la Yuma. Efectivamente, no se si te recuerdas, se trataba de una pelicula de Glenn Ford, “The 3:10 to Yuma” Asi creo que se llamaba. Esta pelicula...

güera

güera  n.— «I’m in the middle; I get judged twice. If I do speak Spanish, everyone is, “Whoa,” and if I don’t speak Spanish, the Mexicans are saying, “She’s just another guera (light person).”» —“Cultural...

stove pipe

stove pipe  v.— «In short, Apple had the sort of confusion present at most older organizations, where databases grew up with stove-piped or isolated islands of proprietary automation.» —“In The New Era Of Systems Architecture, Apple...

trapo

trapo  n.— «The very term “trapo” must have been invented because of Jose de Venecia. A trapo through and through even before trapo entered the lexicon, he was already a trapo in Ferdinand Marcos’s Batasang Pambansa, the...

chicane

chicane  n.— «They will spend Saturday, Aug. 18, practicing on the course, which will have the usual “chicane” and the usual quota of sharp turns.» —“New Autor Racing Era” by Frank M. Blunk New York...

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