quebrada
English
Noun
quebrada (plural quebradas)
- a ravine
- 2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209:
- Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.
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Galician
Portuguese
Noun
quebrada f (plural quebradas)
- (slang, often used in plural) neighboorhood
- (slang) a place in a town or city where drugs are routinely consumed, often without knowledge of authorities
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keˈbɾada/, [keˈβɾaða]
Further reading
- “quebrada” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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