What is abuelos? abuelos is grandparents
What is grandparents?
- m. y f. Respecto de una persona, padre o madre de su padre o de su madre: mi sobrino fue al parque con su abuelo.
m. and f. respect a person, father, or mother of his father or his mother: my nephew went to the park with her grandfather.
- col. Anciano: las enfermeras del hospital cuidan muy bien a los abuelos de la planta geriátrica.
Col. elder: the nurses of the hospital care very well to the grandparents of the plant geriatric.
- m. pl. Padres del padre o de la madre de una persona, o de ambos: abuelos paternos y maternos.
m. pl. Parents of the father or mother of a person, or both: paternal and maternal grandparents.
- m. col. mil. Soldado al que le quedan menos de seis meses para terminar el servicio militar: el abuelo se libró de un arresto por los pelos.
m. col. thousand. Soldier which are less than six months to complete military service: Grandpa was spared an arrest by a whisker.
- En juegos de azar, loterías, bingo, etc., nombre dado popularmente al número noventa: me salió el abuelo en la rifa.
In games of chance, lotteries, bingo, etc., name given popularly to the number ninety: I came out the grandfather in the raffle.
- éramos pocos y parió la abuela loc. col. Se dice para dar a entender que a un mal existente se añade otro mayor o, de manera especial, que hay un aumento inoportuno del número de gente: el metro iba a tope y subieron varios jóvenes, así que éramos pocos y parió la abuela.
There were few and gave birth to the loc grandmother. Col. is says to give to understand that to a wrong existing is adds another greater or, of way special, that there is an increase inappropriate of the number of people: the metro was to bumper and climbed several young, so were few and gave birth the grandmother.
- no necesitar o no tener uno abuela loc. col. Se dice para censurar al que se alaba mucho a sí mismo: siempre me habla de su físico, no necesita abuela.
not need or do not have one grandmother loc. Col. is says to censure to which is praises much to itself same: always me speaks of his physical, not need grandmother.