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/Sounds like "seh" (as in "set") + "PAH" (as in "park") + "roh" (as in "row")/

Meaning

In Mexico, a holding cell at a police station where detainees are kept before being transferred to the public prosecutor. Anyone who has ever been to a Mexican delegación knows what the separo is.

Examples

He spent the night in the separo for causing a drunken disturbance.

They kept him in the separos until his family came to bail him out.

Regional synonyms

The northern Mexican and Chicano way of saying "vato": a dude, a guy, a homie. The same word with a slight pronunciation shift that gives it a distinctly norteño flavor, heard across northern Mexico and among Mexican-Americans in the US.