Culo Definition & Meaning

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culo American [koo-law] / ˈku lɔ /

noun

Spanish Slang.

plural

culos

1. the buttocks.

Usage

What else does culo mean? Content warning: this article includes profanity and vulgar language.Culo is a vulgar word in Spanish literally meaning "butt" or "ass," used in a range of coarse idiomatic expressions.The term is also a milder colloquial term for "butt" in Italian.

Etymology

Origin of culo

First recorded in 1985–90; from Spanish, from Latin cūlus

Example Sentences

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One Australian fan recently visited the farm and asked to adopt the culo d’asino apple, so named because it resembles a donkey’s backside.

From New York Times

Bach was represented on the first half of the “Voices, Winds and Paths” program, when Michael Culo conducted the Collegium Iuvenum Stuttgart Boys Choir in a lineup that traced the development of sacred German choral music from Bach and two other baroque composers, Heinrich Schütz and Andreas Hammerschmidt, through Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

From New York Times

Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a s�culo, quemquam ad tua currentem pr�sidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.

From Project Gutenberg

He has been excessively praised by Schopenhauer, whose appreciation of the author induced him to translate the Or�culo manual, and he has been unduly depreciated by Ticknor and others.

From Project Gutenberg

Schopenhauer and Joseph Jacobs have respectively translated the Or�culo manual into German and English.

From Project Gutenberg

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