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1. Hispanic word for a cheap sandal or flip-flops; also known as chancla. Often found under the bed.
2. Often used as disciplinary tool to correct lamentable behavior. May be used as a adjective (chancletero/chancletera-one who wears cheap sandals/flip flops; also used as verb (chanclaso-severe beating with a chancleta/chancla) 1. "Yo, why are you wearing socks with chancletas?"
"Get my chancletas, I'm going out" "Have you seen my chancleta, I seem to have misplaced it" 2. "You better clean that room before you get a chancleta in the face!" 3. "Why is your thigh red? It got in the way of a chancleta." 4. "I hear that chancletero coming down the hall" 5. "I came home late last night and got the chanclaso of my life!" |
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