piquete
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: pi‧que‧te
Noun
editpiquete m (plural piquetes)
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom pico + -ete (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpiquete m (plural piquetes)
- prick (in the skin)
- shot, jab (with a syringe)
- Synonym: inyección
- injection
- Synonym: inyección
- sting (bump in the skin made by an insect)
- Synonym: roncha
- (slang, Mexico) a small or medium amount of a strong alcoholic beverage (usually tequila, rum or brandy) poured in a non-alcoholic beverage, such as punch, coffee, juice, soda beverage, etc.
- Dame un café, pero con piquete.
- Give me a coffee, but pour some alcohol in it.
- picket line
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “piquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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