rajarse

rajarse

► verbo pronominal

1 (partirse) to split, crack

2 familiar (desistir) to back out, quit

3 familiar (acobardarse) to chicken out

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VPR

1) [papel, tejido] to tear, rip; [vidrio, cerámica] to crack; [neumático] to get ripped

2) * (=echarse atrás) to back out *

no te irás a rajar ahora que tenemos las entradas — you are not going to back out now we've got the tickets

¡me rajé! — LAm that's enough for me!, I'm quitting!

3) LAm (=huir) to run away

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(v.) = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of)

Ex. The main reason he wimped out was that he had a cheap bike that didn't gear properly, and made it extremely hard to bike efficiently.

Ex. He regards David Jull's unwillingness to take up such a proposal as an early indication that John Howard and his colleagues are wimping.

Ex. So basically they are chickening out of the debate.

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(v.) = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of)

Ex: The main reason he wimped out was that he had a cheap bike that didn't gear properly, and made it extremely hard to bike efficiently.

Ex: He regards David Jull's unwillingness to take up such a proposal as an early indication that John Howard and his colleagues are wimping.

Ex: So basically they are chickening out of the debate.

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■rajarse verbo reflexivo
1 (un objeto) to crack
2 (una tela) to split
3 fam (acobardarse) to back out, chicken out
'rajarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
quebrar
- rajar
- trizarse
English:
crack
- rip
- split
- tear
- chicken

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vpr

1. [partirse] [cerámica, puerta] to crack;

[tela] to tear, to rip;

se me rajó la camisa my shirt ripped

2. Fam [echarse atrás] to back o pull out;

ahora ya es muy tarde para que te rajes it's too late for you to back out now

3. Andes, CAm, RP Fam [gastar] to blow;

se rajó todo el sueldo en una semana she blew all her wages in one week

4. Andes, Carib, RP Fam [escaparse] to rush o run off

5. Bol, CAm, Chile, Perú Fam [obsequiar]

se rajó con un anillo de brillantes he splashed out on a diamond ring

6. Andes Fam [esforzarse] to slog one's guts out;

se rajó para que él pudiese terminar los estudios she slogged her guts out so that he could finish his studies

7. Chile, Col Fam [suspender] to fail, US to flunk;

si no estudia para el examen, va a rajarse if she doesn't revise, she'll come a cropper in the exam

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rajarse

v/r fig fam

back out fam

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vr

1) : to crack, to split open

2) fam : to back out

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rajarse vb

1. (partirse) to split [pt. & pp. split]

al caer al suelo, el melón se rajó the melon split open when it fell on the floor

2. (echarse atrás) to back out

mi amigo se rajó y me tuve que ir solo my friend backed out and I had to go on my own