porrazo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From porra (“nightstick (US), truncheon (UK)”) + -azo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /poˈraθo/ [poˈra.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /poˈraso/ [poˈra.so]
- Rhymes: -aθo
- Rhymes: -aso
- Syllabification: po‧rra‧zo
Noun
[edit]porrazo m (plural porrazos)
- (colloquial) hit, whack, blow with a nightstick, truncheon
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “porrazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014