chupacabras

From Spanish chupa (“it sucks”) +‎ cabras (“goats”).

chupacabras (plural chupacabras)

1. (cryptozoology) A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas dating from the 1990s, supposed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:chupacabras.

chupacabras

1. plural of chupacabra

Verb-object compound, composed of chupa (“to suck”) +‎ cabras (“goats”), literally “goatsucker”.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃupaˈkabɾas/ [t͡ʃu.paˈka.β̞ɾas]

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• Rhymes: -abɾas
• Syllabification: chu‧pa‧ca‧bras

chupacabras m (plural chupacabras)

1. (cryptozoology) chupacabras

• → English: chupacabra, chupacabras

• chotacabras

• “chupacabras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024