foco
Meanings
Noun
1. spotlight
a. focus (place or spot where something is focused)
2. light bulb (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, South America)
a. headlight (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Southern Cone)
b. flashlight; torch (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic)
c. eyes (Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, figurative, figuratively)
3. shame (Ecuador, youth slang)
4. Man with hair a little longer than a buzz cut. (Bolivia)
5. crystal meth (at least Mexico, slang, at least uncountable)
Examples4
Tomás perdió el foco.
Tom has lost his focus.
Mi hermano mayor siempre tiene que ser el foco de atención.
My older brother always has to be the center of attention.
El foco se fundió.
The light bulb burned out.
Todos esos puntos son focos virales.
All those dots are viral focuses.