echar el guante

Spanish

Verb

echar el guante (first-person singular present echo el guante, first-person singular preterite eché el guante, past participle echado el guante)

1. (idiomatic) to catch, glove, entrap

Further reading

• “echar el guante a alguien”, 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