trancazo

m.

1 blow (with a stick) (blow).

2 bout of the flu (informal) (gripe).

3 the bends, caisson disease.

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trancazo

► nombre masculino

1 (golpe) blow with a cudgel

2 familiar figurado (resfriado) cold; (gripe) flu

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FRASEOLOGÍA

pegarse un trancazo familiar to come a cropper

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SM

1) (=golpe) blow, bang (with a stick)

2) * (=gripe) flu

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masculino (golpe) blow

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= bang, blow.

Ex. This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Ex. The Great War of 1914-18 was a heavy blow for the Bulletin, from which it never really recovered, and in the 1920s it gradually sank under its own weight, helped by a forced move from its previous quarters to make room for a trade fair.

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* dar un trancazo = belt.

* por un gustazo, un trancazo = a kingdom for a kiss.

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masculino (golpe) blow

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= bang, blow.

Ex: This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Ex: The Great War of 1914-18 was a heavy blow for the Bulletin, from which it never really recovered, and in the 1920s it gradually sank under its own weight, helped by a forced move from its previous quarters to make room for a trade fair.

* dar un trancazo = belt.

* por un gustazo, un trancazo = a kingdom for a kiss.

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trancazo

masculine

1 (golpe) blow

2 (Esp fam) (gripe) flu

coger un trancazo to get o catch (the) flu

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trancazo sustantivo masculino
1 Med familiar influenza, flu: con el trancazo que tengo, hoy no me levanto de la cama, there's no way I'm getting out of bed with the flu that I've got
2 blow with a stick: lo dejó sin sentido de un trancazo en la cabeza, the blow to the head left him unconscious
'trancazo' also found in these entries:
English:
bang

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trancazo nm

1. [golpe] blow (with a cudgel o stick)

2. Fam [gripe] bout of (the) flu

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trancazo

m fam

dose of flu

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trancazo nm

golpe: blow, hit