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"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Spanish terms with quotations",
"Spanish uncountable nouns"
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"ref": "2011 August 21, Lucía Bohórquez, “El 'balconing' vuelve a matar en Baleares”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2015:",
"text": "A pesar de las advertencias de las autoridades y los hoteleros, el balconing ha vuelto a las islas. Los turistas, borrachos tras una juerga, tratan de saltar desde el balcón de la habitación del hotel hasta la piscina, en ocasiones jaleados por amigos y compañeros que tratan de inmortalizar el recuerdo del salto en un vídeo que después cuelgan en redes sociales.",
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"ref": "2016 August 3, Carlos Garfella, “El ‘balconing’ y otros excesos del turismo masivo en España”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2018:",
"text": "Turistas entrando desnudos a comprar en supermercados, muertos por ‘balconing’, o fiestas de alto contenido sexual como la del “mamading” en Magaluf (Mallorca) son algunos de los efectos del turismo de borrachera y “low cost” que durante los últimos años han proliferado en las comunidades más turísticas de España.",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"balconing"
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"links": [
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Spain) balconing"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "balconismo"
}
],
"tags": [
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"masculine",
"uncountable"
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/balˈkonin/"
},
{
"ipa": "[balˈko.nĩn]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-onin"
}
],
"word": "balconing"
}
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