chorro
Meanings
Noun
1. flow; jet
2. tap; faucet (Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Canary Islands)
3. ton, tons; bunch; pile (colloquial, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic)
4. diarrhea (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador, Canary Islands)
5. a poor person, ghetto, a criminal (Chile, slang)
6. coin purse (Chile, colloquial)
7. thief (Argentina, colloquial, Lunfardo)
Examples6
Tom bajó un chorro de peso.
Tom lost a ton of weight.
Está tan limpio como los chorros del oro.
It's as clean as a whistle.
Está lloviendo a chorros.
Rain is pouring.
chorro de arena
sandblast
Abrió el grifo y salió un chorro de agua.
He turned on the faucet and a jet of water came out.
El agua sale de la fuente a chorros.
Water is gushing from the fountain.