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billete
🇨🇴 Spanish slang from Colombia
What does “billete” mean?
money, wealth ("he has billete": he is rich)
Example
“Esa familia tiene billete.”
That family has money.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: dinero
Heard in a conversation
Arepas at the corner stall
Santi ¿Cuánta plata tiene? Yo solo cargo tres lucas.
How much have you got? I've only got three thousand on me.
Juli Tranquilo, yo invito. Ay, pero qué oso, solo tengo un billete de cincuenta.
Relax, my treat. Oh, but how embarrassing, I've only got a fifty-thousand note.
Santi Jajaja, ese señor nunca tiene cambio. Pregúntele si recibe Nequi.
Haha, that man never has change. Ask him if he takes Nequi.
More from Colombia
- lucasthousand pesos
- hacer una vacato chip in, to pool money
- el rebusquehustling for any work going
- estar varadoto be stuck: no work, no money or no ride
- platamoney
- un paloa million pesos
- amarradostingy, tight-fisted
- parcebuddy, bro
Songs from Colombia
- La Camisa Negra · JuanesLevel A2
- Vida de Rico · CamiloLevel A2
- Waka Waka (Esto es África) · ShakiraLevel A2
- Mi Gente · J Balvin, Willy WilliamLevel A2
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