Dominican Republicbregar
verb · Colloquial · breh-GAR
To deal with something, to handle it — with the implication of effort and improvisation. 'Bregar con' takes a person or a problem: bregar con el tránsito, bregar con mi jefe.
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Dominican Republic
Dominican Slang for Money & Work
4 Dominican slang terms for money & work, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Slang for cash, cost, employment and effort. Money terms are among the oldest and most durable slang in any language, and often the most regionally specific.
chele
noun · Colloquial · CHEH-leh
A cent — and in practice, the smallest imaginable amount of money. It survives almost entirely in the negative: 'no tengo un chele', I haven't got a penny.
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cuartos
noun · Colloquial · KWAR-tohs — the s is usually breathed away: KWAR-toh
Money, in general. The everyday Dominican word — dinero sounds like a form you are filling in, and plata belongs to other countries.
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tumbe
noun · Colloquial · TOOM-beh
A rip-off, a stitch-up; also a robbery in the specific sense of taking something from someone who was themselves up to no good.
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