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/Sounds like "ehs" (as in "egg") + "koh" (as in "coat") + "nyeh" + "TAHR" (as in "tar")/

Meaning

To damage, break, or completely wreck something in Venezuela. When something gets "escoñetado" it's totally useless, destroyed, and not easily fixable.

Examples

He dropped his phone and completely trashed it.

Don't touch that or you'll break it.

Word family
Regional synonyms

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.