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/Sounds like "kohl" (as in "coat") + "GAHR" (as in "garden") + "LOHS" (as in "loan") + "GWAH" (as in "Guam") + "yohs" (as in "yoke")/

Meaning

In Venezuela, to retire from something for good, to hang it up forever. From soccer, where a player "hangs up his cleats" at the end of their career. Now used for any final retirement.

Examples

After thirty years of work he finally hung it up for good.

I'm done with the party scene, I've retired from all that.

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In Mexico, a master of wordplay who finds sexual double meanings in every innocent phrase and fires back with a clever pun before you even finish your sentence. Albur is a deeply rooted Mexican verbal art form, and the alburero is its practitioner. No conversation is safe around one.