botellón

See also: botellon

Spanish

Botellón at night (2006)

Alternative forms

• botellon (obsolete)

Etymology

From botella +‎ -ón, literally “big bottle”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /boteˈʝon/ [bo.t̪eˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /boteˈʝon/ [bo.t̪eˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /boteˈʎon/ [bo.t̪eˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /boteˈʃon/ [bo.t̪eˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /boteˈʒon/ [bo.t̪eˈʒõn]

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bo‧te‧llón

Noun

botellón m (plural botellones)

1. (colloquial, Spain) street BYOB party, binge, binge drinking, booze-up (a Spanish activity when people (above all the teenagers and young adults) congregate in public places to socialize while drinking alcohol.)
2. (colloquial, Mexico) demijohn

   Synonym: damajuana

Derived terms

• botellódromo m
• macrobotellón m

 

Further reading

• “botellón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• botellón on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• botellón on Wikipedia.Wikipedia