ponche
Meaning
ponchar
- (intransitive) to punch in/out (at work)
- (transitive) to crimp (to fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened)
- (reflexive, transitive) to strike out
- (Mexico, colloquial, transitive) to puncture (something like a balloon, a ball, a tire, etc.) and make it burst or unusable
- (Mexico, colloquial, intransitive, reflexive) to burst, to go flat (of a tire), to became deflated
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Frequency
Hyphenated as
pon‧che
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpont͡ʃe/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from English punch, from Hindi पाँच (pā̃c, “five”). Doublet of cinco and ponzu.
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