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/Sounds like "bah" (as in "bar") + "tee" (as in "tea") + "DOHR" (as in "door")/

Meaning

A snitch or informant who tells everything they know to whoever holds authority. In Argentine slang, from the lunfardo word "batir" (to talk, to rat someone out). Calling someone a batidor is a serious insult in street and prison slang.

Examples

El batidor los entregó a todos antes de que pudieran salir.

The snitch gave everyone up before they could even get out.

No hables de más delante de ese, es un batidor conocido.

Don't say too much around him, he's known for ratting people out.

Word family

House or home, urban youth slang used in Ecuador and Colombia. "Voy a la caleta" simply means "I'm heading home." The word traces back to caló, a Roma-influenced jargon that traveled to the Americas with Spanish colonizers and settled in several countries with the sense of a private hideout or refuge.