talego
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom talega.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittalego 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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editFurther reading
edit- “talego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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- es:Bags
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