caler
Meanings
Verb
1. to wedge (open) (a door) (transitive)
2. to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine) (transitive)
3. to stall (of driver, engine) (intransitive)
4. to fill (someone) up (transitive)
5. (of person eating) to be full (intransitive, colloquial)
6. to synchronize (transitive)
7. to chug (an alcoholic beverage) (Quebec, transitive)
8. to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald (Quebec, transitive)
Examples9
Ma voiture a calé.
My car stalled.
Je vais te la caler bien profond.
I am going to fill you up so full.
Tom a calé sa bière.
Tom chugged his beer.
Ma voiture a calé au milieu du carrefour.
My car stalled in the middle of the intersection.
Il s'est calé dans son siège de telle façon que je ne le voie pas.
He scrunched down in his seat so that I wouldn't see him.
Lorsque Tom s'est arrêté au stop, son engin a calé.
When Tom stopped for a stop sign, his engine stalled.