No. 10,606 in Spanish
culebrón
A "culebrón" is a long-running, melodramatic television soap opera.
In a sentence
El culebrón de la televisión duró varios meses.
The soap opera on television lasted several months.
Here, 'culebrón' refers to a long-running, dramatic television series.
La reunión se convirtió en un culebrón lleno de drama innecesario.
The meeting turned into a soap opera filled with unnecessary drama.
In this sentence, 'culebrón' is used metaphorically to describe an event filled with exaggerated drama.
Ese escándalo político es todo un culebrón que parece no tener fin.
That political scandal is quite a soap opera that seems to have no end.
Here, 'culebrón' is metaphorically describing a complex, ongoing situation filled with dramatic twists.
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