culebrón
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From culebra (“snake”) + -ón. The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
culebrón m (plural culebrones)
- soap opera
- large snake
- crafty person
References[edit]
- ^ “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading[edit]
- “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014