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litrona

large beer bottle

noun lee-TROH-nah Rare

Usage Note

Litrona is a colloquial Spanish term for a one-liter bottle of beer, strongly associated with street drinking (botellón) and youth culture in Spain. It is an informal, register-marked word; in a bar or restaurant one would order una caña (draft) or una botella instead. The word is formed from litro (liter) with the augmentative suffix -ona.

Examples

"Se sentaron en el parque con una litrona."

Natural Translation

They sat in the park with a large beer bottle.

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