culebrón

Spanish

Etymology

From culebra (“snake”) +‎ -ón. The sense of 'soap opera' arose from the shows being extremely long-running[1] and the large number of turns in the plot.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kuleˈbɾon/ [ku.leˈβ̞ɾõn]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: cu‧le‧brón

Noun

culebrón m (plural culebrones)

  1. soap opera
  2. large snake
  3. crafty person

References
  1. “culebrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading
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