salvacostas
Spanish
editEtymology
editVerb-object compound, composed of salva (“to save”) + costas (“coasts”).
Noun
editsalvacostas m or f by sense (plural salvacostas)
- (rare) lifeguard
- 2018 June 23, Jorge Arturo Mora, “Un nuevo horizonte sobre olas de bienestar”, in La Nación (Costa Rica)[1]:
- Era salvacostas pero nunca entraba al mar.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)