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echarse los palos
🇻🇪 Spanish slang from Venezuela
What does “echarse los palos” mean?
to have some drinks
Example
“Vamos a echarnos unos palos esta noche.”
Let's have a few drinks tonight.
Good to know
'Palo' = a drink.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: tomar unas copas
Heard in a conversation
Grandma's 80th birthday
Gabo ¡Qué chimbo! Siempre hace lo mismo.
That's so lame! He always does that.
Andreína Y mi tío ya quiere echarse los palos antes de que llegue la abuela.
And my uncle already wants to have a few drinks before Grandma arrives.
Gabo Jaja, típico. ¡Ahí viene! Apaguen las luces, panas.
Haha, typical. Here she comes! Lights off, guys.
More from Venezuela
- convivea get-together, a friendly party
- rumbearto party, to go out
- una fríaa cold beer
- cañabooze, alcohol
- parrillabarbecue (the meal and the gathering)
- tequeñoscheese sticks wrapped in dough, fried
- pasapalosfinger food, party nibbles
- chamo / chamakid; dude / girl
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