corchete
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French crochet. Doublet of croché.
Noun edit
corchete m (plural corchetes)
- square bracket
- hook and eye
- (Chile) staple
- Synonym: grapa
- (colloquial, historical) cop; copper (police)
Further reading edit
- “corchete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014