"vela güira" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vela güira",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mfbysense",
        "2": "#"
      },
      "expansion": "vela güira m or f by sense (plural vela güira)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ve‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Puerto Rican Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
          "parents": [
            "Masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
            "Nouns by gender",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish nouns with irregular gender",
          "parents": [
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            "Irregular nouns",
            "Nouns by inflection type",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The problem was that they put their ambitions ahead of their obligations to the rest of society; \"opportunists\", as they say, satisfying only their own needs.",
          "ref": "1998 July 7, soc.culture.puerto-rico (Usenet)",
          "text": "El problema estaba en que ponían sus ambiciones por delante de sus obligaciones para con el resto de la sociedad y estaban pendientes, como quien \"vela güira\", de satisfacer únicamente sus propias necesidades.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Particularly if one so-called participant in this \"small group\" is a coward and an opportunist who lives in California.",
          "ref": "2002 May 28, soc.culture.puerto-rico (Usenet)",
          "text": "Particularmente si un diz que participe de ese \"pequeño grupo\" es un cobarde y un vela güira que vive en California.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an opportunist; one who takes an advantage over others"
      ],
      "id": "en-vela_güira-es-noun-0tQ9k2ou",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "opportunist",
          "opportunist"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, Puerto Rico, derogatory) an opportunist; one who takes an advantage over others"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "oportunista"
        },
        {
          "word": "abusador"
        },
        {
          "word": "ventajista"
        },
        {
          "word": "lambeojo"
        },
        {
          "word": "soplapote"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Puerto-Rico",
        "by-personal-gender",
        "derogatory",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌbela ˈɡwiɾa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌbe.la ˈɣ̞wi.ɾa]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vela güira"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vela güira",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mfbysense",
        "2": "#"
      },
      "expansion": "vela güira m or f by sense (plural vela güira)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ve‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Puerto Rican Spanish",
        "Spanish countable nouns",
        "Spanish derogatory terms",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish feminine nouns",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
        "Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish nouns",
        "Spanish nouns with irregular gender",
        "Spanish nouns with multiple genders",
        "Spanish slang",
        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The problem was that they put their ambitions ahead of their obligations to the rest of society; \"opportunists\", as they say, satisfying only their own needs.",
          "ref": "1998 July 7, soc.culture.puerto-rico (Usenet)",
          "text": "El problema estaba en que ponían sus ambiciones por delante de sus obligaciones para con el resto de la sociedad y estaban pendientes, como quien \"vela güira\", de satisfacer únicamente sus propias necesidades.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Particularly if one so-called participant in this \"small group\" is a coward and an opportunist who lives in California.",
          "ref": "2002 May 28, soc.culture.puerto-rico (Usenet)",
          "text": "Particularmente si un diz que participe de ese \"pequeño grupo\" es un cobarde y un vela güira que vive en California.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an opportunist; one who takes an advantage over others"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "opportunist",
          "opportunist"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, Puerto Rico, derogatory) an opportunist; one who takes an advantage over others"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "oportunista"
        },
        {
          "word": "abusador"
        },
        {
          "word": "ventajista"
        },
        {
          "word": "lambeojo"
        },
        {
          "word": "soplapote"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Puerto-Rico",
        "by-personal-gender",
        "derogatory",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌbela ˈɡwiɾa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌbe.la ˈɣ̞wi.ɾa]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vela güira"
}