No. 10,224 in Spanish
colar
To strain, filter, or sneak.
In a sentence
Tenemos que colar el café antes de servirlo.
We have to strain the coffee before serving it.
In this sentence, 'colar' is used to refer to the action of filtering or straining something liquid to remove solid pieces.
Ella se coló en la fila del cine y nadie se dio cuenta.
She sneaked into the cinema line and no one noticed.
Here, 'colarse' (a reflexive form) means to sneak or slip into a space without being noticed.
Estos datos falsos no deberían colarse en el informe oficial.
These false data should not slip into the official report.
In this context, 'colar' is used figuratively to mean that something undesirable goes unnoticed or gets included where it shouldn't.
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