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/Sounds like "ehn" (as in "egg") + "kloh" (as in "close") + "CHAHR" (as in "chat")/

Meaning

To become overly attached or fixated on someone or something, refusing to let go even when it is clearly time to move on. The person who is "enclochado" does not listen to reason and cannot see other options, no matter how obvious it is to everyone around them. Used in Colombia.

Examples

He is still completely hung up on his ex from two years ago, nobody can get through to him.

She got so fixated on that idea that she stopped being open to anything else.

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Regional synonyms

A blabbermouth who cannot keep a secret: the person you should never tell anything important because it'll be public knowledge by sunset. The word is colorfully descriptive, "bocachancla" literally means "flip-flop mouth," evoking uncontrolled, flapping speech.