pucherazo
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /put͡ʃeˈɾaθo/ [pu.t͡ʃeˈɾa.θo] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /put͡ʃeˈɾaso/ [pu.t͡ʃeˈɾa.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
- Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: pu‧che‧ra‧zo
Noun
pucherazo m (plural pucherazos)
- hit or blow with a cooking pot
- (politics) electoral fraud, rigged election; the cooking of the books in an election
- Synonym: fraude electoral
Further reading
- “pucherazo”, 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