Culo Definition & Meaning

American

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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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Un chico se me abalanza x detrás y me soba el culo.

From BBC

It alternately glamorizes and condemns the drug pusher and his lifestyle, ending with a stern warning voiced by Mexican-American rapper Krazy Dee: “You sold crack to my sister and now she’s sick / But if she happens to die because of your drug / I’m putting in your culo a .38 slug.”

From The Guardian

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

It featured the single Culo, which peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100.

From BusinessWeek

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

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