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What does «los pesos» mean in Dominican Spanish?
los pesos
pesos, the money
| Meaning | pesos, the money |
|---|---|
| Standard Spanish | el dinero, la moneda |
| Register | Neutral |
«Un viaje corto son cien o doscientos pesos.»
A short ride is a hundred or two hundred pesos.
The Dominican currency. Out on the street people say the bare number — «dame cien» — and everyone takes it to mean pesos.
Related Dominican words
- cualto — money
- estar arrancao — to be flat broke, penniless
- estar en olla — to be broke
- estar roto — to be broke
- fíame — put it on my tab
- juntar lo cualto — to scrape the money together
- la milonga — a thousand-peso bill
- la moña — a loan, a lend
- la papeleta — bills, cash
- la parada — the bet, the stake
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