pétard
Appearance
See also: petard
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pétard m (plural pétards)
- firecracker (firework) [from 1495]
- 2023 November 12, “Football. Hoffenheim réagit au lancer de pétard qui a causé l’interruption du match à Augsbourg”, in Ouest France:
- Ce dimanche 12 novembre, le club allemand d’Hoffenheim a publié un communiqué pour condamner le lancer de pétard ayant causé l’interruption pendant sept minutes de la rencontre face à Augbsbourg, à l’occasion de la 11e journée de Bundesliga (1-1).
- This Sunday, November 12, the German club Hoffenheim published a press release to condemn the throwing of a firecracker which caused the interruption for seven minutes of the match against Augsburg, on the occasion of the 11th day of the Bundesliga (1-1).
- sensational news; scandal [from 1835]
- Synonym: bombe
- lancer un pétard ― to cause a scandal (literally, “to throw a firecracker”)
- (slang) joint (marijuana cigarette)
- Synonym: joint
- Je fume pas mal de pétards. ― I smoke a lot of joints.
- (slang) revolver [from 1847]
- Synonym: flingue
- (slang) buttocks; ass [from 1847]
- Synonym: (Quebec) péteux
- 1936, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mort à crédit [Death on Credit], Paris: Denoël, page 255:
- Elle avait pas vingt piges la môme et des petits nénés insolents… et la taille de guêpe… et un pétard comme je les aime, tendu, musclé, bien fendu.
- The chick wasn't twenty years old, and little insolent tits… and a wasp waist… and an ass just the way I like, taut, muscled, well-split.
- (slang) sexy man or woman
- Synonyms: bombe sexuelle (of a woman), étalon (of a man)
- (attributive, of colors) bright; shiny; eyecatching
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[edit]pétard
Further reading
[edit]- “pétard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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