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alcapurria
🇵🇷 Spanish slang from Puerto Rico
What does “alcapurria” mean?
fried fritter of green banana and taro stuffed with meat
Example
“Una alcapurria de jueyes, por favor.”
A crab alcapurria, please.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🌮 Food
The textbook way to say it: fritura rellena
Heard in a conversation
Lost phone at the beach
Diego Mi jeva, jaja. No, mentira. Mejor lo meto en el bulto y ya.
My girlfriend, haha. No, kidding. I'd better just put it in my backpack and be done.
Luis Brutal. Ahora sí, una alcapurria pa' celebrar.
Awesome. Now, an alcapurria to celebrate.
More from Puerto Rico
- chinchorrearto hop between roadside bars
- jartarseto stuff yourself
- una fríaa cold beer
- friturasfried snacks (alcapurrias, bacalaítos, pastelillos)
- mofongomashed fried plantain with garlic and crackling
- un piscolabisa little snack, a bite
- ¡Wepa!Woo-hoo! / Yay!
- janguearto hang out
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- Danza Kuduro · Don Omar, LucenzoLevel A2
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- Suavemente · Elvis CrespoLevel A2
- El Perdón · Nicky Jam, Enrique IglesiasLevel A2
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