corrientazo

From corriente +‎ -azo.

• IPA^(key): /korjenˈtaθo/ [ko.rjẽn̪ˈt̪a.θo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /korjenˈtaso/ [ko.rjẽn̪ˈt̪a.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθo (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: co‧rrien‧ta‧zo

corrientazo m (plural corrientazos)

1. (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Canary Islands) electric shock
   • 2015 July 21, “El costo millonario de las conexiones eléctricas ilegales en América Latina”, in El País‎^[1]:

     En la temporada de lluvias, todos corren el riesgo de un corrientazo mortal.

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2. (Colombia) slap-up meal

• “corrientazo”, 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
• “corrientazo”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
• “corrientazo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010