botellón
See also: botellon
Spanish
Alternative forms
- botellon (obsolete)
Etymology
From botella + -ón, literally “big bottle”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boteˈʝon/ [bo.t̪eˈʝõn] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /boteˈʎon/ [bo.t̪eˈʎõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /boteˈʃon/ [bo.t̪eˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /boteˈʒon/ [bo.t̪eˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: bo‧te‧llón
Noun
botellón m (plural botellones)
- (colloquial, Spain) street BYOB party, binge, binge drinking, booze-up (a Spanish activity when people (above all the teenagers and young adults) congregate in public places to socialize while drinking alcohol.)
- (colloquial, Mexico) demijohn
- Synonym: damajuana
Derived terms
Further reading
- “botellón”, 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
- botellón on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- botellón on Wikipedia.Wikipedia