corchete
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French crochet with metathesis. Doublet of croché.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corchete m (plural corchetes)
- square bracket
- hook and eye
- (Chile) staple
- Synonym: grapa
- (colloquial, historical) cop; copper (police)
Derived terms
[edit]- (Chile) corchetear (“to staple”)
- (Chile) corchetera (“stapler”)
Further reading
[edit]- “corchete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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