noun · Dated · BON-cheh
A party or a night out. Perfectly comprehensible to everyone but now clearly the older generation's word — a Dominican under twenty-five says teteo or coro and hears bonche as something their parents say.
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Dominican Republic
9 Dominican slang terms for going out & partying, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Nights out, drinking, dancing and the aftermath. A category where slang renews itself every few years as each generation renames the same activities.
noun · Dated · BON-cheh
A party or a night out. Perfectly comprehensible to everyone but now clearly the older generation's word — a Dominican under twenty-five says teteo or coro and hears bonche as something their parents say.
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noun · Colloquial · CHER-chah
Banter; loud, joking, teasing talk among a group. A chercha is a conversation whose purpose is the noise it makes, not the information in it.
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noun · Informal · KOH-roh
A hangout: the group of people and the occasion at once. '¿Y el coro?' asks both where everyone is and what is happening tonight.
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adjective · Informal · des-ah-kah-TAH-oh
Out of control in the admiring sense — a party, a track or a performance going far beyond what was expected. The core dembow compliment of the last decade.
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noun, verb · Informal · hahn-GEH-oh
Hanging out; going out with no fixed plan. The verb is janguear, and it covers everything from a street corner to a club.
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noun · Informal · HOO-moh
A drunk; the state of being drunk. Always with coger: 'cogió un jumo' — he got hammered.
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adjective · Informal · pren-DEE-oh
Of a party or a place: going hard, full of people, at its peak. 'Esto tá prendío' is the announcement that the night has arrived.
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noun · Informal · ser-VEE-syoh
A bottle of rum ordered with everything that goes with it — ice bucket, cups, and a bottle of cola or soda water. The standard unit of a night out at a colmadón or a car wash.
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noun · Informal · teh-TEH-oh
A party, and specifically the loud street-and-colmado kind that runs until the speakers are switched off. The word of the moment: it has displaced bonche almost entirely among under-thirties.
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