chueco
- (Latin-America) crooked, bent, curved (not straight, having one or more bends or angles)
- (Latin-America) crooked, oblique, (not at right angles, horizontal or vertical)
- (Mexico, slang) hot, stolen
- (Latin-America) devious
Opposite of
derecho, recto, bueno, legítimo, legal
Hyphenated as
chue‧co
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈt͡ʃweko/
Etymology
From chueca (“stump of a tree”), itself from Basque txoko (“anklebone”), perhaps recalling curved, bent branches sprouting from it.
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