talego
Spanish
Etymology
From talega.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈleɡo/ [t̪aˈle.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes: -eɡo
- Syllabification: ta‧le‧go
Noun
talego m (plural talegos)
- sack, bag
- Synonym: bolsa
- (colloquial, Spain) jail
- (colloquial, Spain) small wad of hash
- (colloquial, historical, Spain) a thousand peseta note (≈ 6 EUR)
- Coordinate term: kilo
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 104:
- Manolo me pasa un talego con el que me hago un canutillo bien tensado y me meto la primera raya.
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Further reading
- “talego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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