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/Sounds like "bee" (as in "bee") + "ROH" (as in "row") + "meh" (as in "met")/

Meaning

A ballpoint pen, what the rest of the world calls a pen or bolígrafo. In Argentina, no one says 'bolígrafo', that would sound absurdly formal. You ask for a birome, always, everywhere, from school age until you stop writing things down by hand.

Examples

Do you have a birome? I need to write down the number.

I lost my birome and couldn't sign.

Regional synonyms

To be completely broke, without a single euro to your name. In Spain quedarse tieso is when the bank account hits zero and you're frozen in place financially.