despelote
See also: despeloté
Spanish
Etymology 1
Deverbal from despelotar (literally “de-balling”), meaning chaos resulting from testicle removal.
Noun
despelote m (plural despelotes)
- (Latin America) fracas or hot mess
Etymology 2
Verb
despelote
- inflection of despelotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “despelote”, 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