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What does «pelar» mean in Dominican Spanish?
pelar
to cut hair; to clean someone out
| Meaning | to cut hair; to clean someone out |
|---|---|
| Standard Spanish | recortar el pelo; sacarle el dinero a alguien |
| Register | Colloquial |
«Me van a pelar en la barbería.»
I'm getting my hair cut at the barbershop.
At the barbershop it is cutting hair. About a relationship it means getting a man's money out of him.
Related Dominican words
- cualto — money
- el galletón — a hard slap
- estar arrancao — to be flat broke, penniless
- estar en olla — to be broke
- estar roto — to be broke
- fíame — put it on my tab
- jalar — to pull
- juntar lo cualto — to scrape the money together
- la galleta — a slap in the face
- la milonga — a thousand-peso bill
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