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jalabolas
🇻🇪 Spanish slang from Venezuela
What does “jalabolas” mean?
suck-up, brown-noser
Example
“Ese tipo es un jalabolas con el jefe.”
That guy is a total suck-up to the boss.
Good to know
Vulgar.
Who you can say it to
Only with close friends
🙄 Teasing💼 Work
The textbook way to say it: adulador
Heard in a conversation
Office gossip
Rafa No, ¿qué vaina pasó?
No, what happened?
Mariale El jefe nuevo es un jalabolas con el gerente, y ahora quiere que trabajemos los sábados.
The new boss is a suck-up to the manager, and now he wants us to work Saturdays.
Rafa ¡Qué arrecho! Yo no vengo un sábado ni loco.
That's infuriating! No way am I coming in on a Saturday.
👅 How other countries say “suck-up, brown-noser”
- 🇨🇴 lambónColombia
- 🇲🇽 barberoMexico
- 🇦🇷 chupamediasArgentina
- 🇪🇸 hacer la pelotaSpain · To suck up.
More from Venezuela
- sifrinosnobby, posh
- chalequearto tease, make fun of
- echar vainato bug someone, to mess about
- bolsaidiot, fool
- gafodumb, clueless
- ladillaa pain, an annoying person
- echónshow-off, braggart
- matar tigresto do odd jobs on the side
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