currar

currar

1. inflection of currō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

• Hyphenation: cur‧rar

currar (first-person singular present curro, first-person singular preterite currei, past participle currado)

1. (Brazil, transitive, vulgar, slang) to rape
2. (Brazil, transitive, vulgar, slang) to fuck
3. (Brazil, transitive, intransitive, slang) to cheat
4. (Brazil, transitive, intransitive, slang) to steal

• “currar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “currar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “currar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from Caló currar, cf. Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇoti, “to make”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kuˈraɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧rrar

currar (first-person singular present curro, first-person singular preterite curré, past participle currado)

1. (Spain, colloquial, intransitive) to work

   Synonyms: currelar, faenar, trabajar, (Mexico) chambear; see also Thesaurus:trabajar

• “currar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10