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Portillo 

Failure to accomplish a small feat needed to achieve a larger goal which you were expected to reach. Comes from former British Defense Secretary Michael Portillo's constituency loss to the Labour Party in 1997, Portillo had been expected to hold his seat and lead the Conservative Party in opposition, however his loss lead to an obscure career of making documentaries about trains.
A: Shit man, you see the election? He would've been Prime Minister if he hadn't lost his own seat.

B: Yeah, he really pulled a Portillo there.
Portillo by STwigg July 21, 2010

antonio portillo 

Damn look at el sexy papi, his name is Antonio Portillo!
antonio portillo by Love304 December 11, 2016

portillo 

A portable tortilla. A flour or corn-based flat shell that can be stored and taken with you.
Don forget to teyk you hot salsa and you portillos to work today, chulo.
portillo by sopenco March 26, 2010

Portillo'd 

To be ritually humiliated by the election of someone else.

To make your name "synonymous with eating a bucketload of shit in public."
The first point Micheal twigged he'd been portillo'd was when the rictus smile on the young Blairite candidate somehow got worse.
Portillo'd by iRöy November 24, 2019