merguez
English
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Maghreban Arabic مِرْقَاز.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛʁ.ɡɛz/
Audio (file)
Noun
merguez f (plural merguez)
- Merguez
- (slang) A car that has been modified—as by filing away its engine number, or including components from different cars—to make it harder to identify or to conceal damage from an accident.[1]
- (slang, by extension) A seemingly normal transaction that later turns out to be a scam.
References
- Le Courrier de Mantes, editor (accessed 23 January 2008), “Petit lexique du jargon des flics”, in (Please provide the title of the work), archived from the original on 5 January 2008
Further reading
- “merguez” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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