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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tumbero
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Prisoner who only consumes food from the prison (usually those who lack family or friends to visit him). Among soldiers it is a meat with bone that is served as a provision or food. He is also that soldier who does not go out in his frank days to feed himself inside the barracks. Relating to the tomb.

  




furoya

1º_ It is something or someone related to the tombs. 2º_ It is said of the soldier that on Frankish days he stays in the barracks to eat the tumbo ("stew with low quality meat that they cook for the troops"). 3º_ For the previous one, in lunfardo it is the "condemned prisoner, who lives in prison", to whom the family does not bring food and eats what they serve him in the dining room. It is also an adjective for "prison". 4º_ Percussionist who plays the tumbadoras.

  


John Rene Plaut

TUMBERO in Argentina : in lunfardo , sublanguage of lunfardo , used in prison . The origin comes from the barracks where, formerly, the TUMBA (very low quality food, which usually had boiled meat) was served to those soldiers who wanted it. 2 . Person who is dedicated to taking care of the graves in the cemetery. 3 . Person who digs pits or builds niches. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions may be in 1972, in the tombs, the writer enrique medina made a cruel x-ray of the institutes for minors, the tombs, which popularized the tumbero

  



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