patas

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patas

  1. Erythrocebus patas, a ground-dwelling long-tailed monkey found in West and East Africa
    • 1999, Robert W. Sussman, The Biological Basis of Human Behavior[1], ISBN 0137997353, page 173:
      When a male patas observes a predator approaching its group, he performs a noisy display, shaking the branches and overtly calling attention to himself.

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patas f

  1. Plural form of pata

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patas f pl

  1. feet, especially of an animal.

meter las patas — to blow it, to make a major social blunder, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and/or to the wrong person.

"Pepe metió las patas hasta el fondo; ¡le dijo a María de lo nuestro!" (Pepe blew it big time; he told Maria about our thing!)