pétard

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Etymology

From péter +‎ -ard.

Pronunciation

pétards en train d’être allumés (firecrackers being lighted)
  • IPA(key): /pe.taʁ/
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Noun

pétard m (plural pétards)

  1. firecracker (firework)
    • 2023 November 12, “Football. Hoffenheim réagit au lancer de pétard qui a causé l’interruption du match à Augsbourg”, in Ouest France:
      Ce dimanche 12 novembre, le club allemand d’Hoffenheim a publié un communiqué pour condamner le lancer de pétard ayant causé l’interruption pendant sept minutes de la rencontre face à Augbsbourg, à l’occasion de la 11e journée de Bundesliga (1-1).
      This Sunday, November 12, the German club Hoffenheim published a press release to condemn the throwing of a firecracker which caused the interruption for seven minutes of the match against Augsburg, on the occasion of the 11th day of the Bundesliga (1-1).
  2. sensational news; scandal
    Synonym: bombe
    lancer un pétardto cause a scandal (literally, “to throw a firecracker”)
  3. (slang) joint (marijuana cigarette)
    Synonym: joint
    Je fume pas mal de pétards.I smoke a lot of joints.
  4. (slang) revolver
    Synonym: flingue
  5. (slang) buttocks; ass
    Synonym: (Quebec) péteux
    • 1936, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mort à crédit, Paris: Denoël, page 255:
      Elle avait pas vingt piges la môme et des petits nénés insolents… et la taille de guêpe… et un pétard comme je les aime, tendu, musclé, bien fendu.
      The chick wasn't twenty years old, and little insolent tits… and a wasp waist… and an ass just the way I like, taut, muscled, well-split.
  6. (slang) sexy man or woman
    Synonyms: bombe sexuelle (of a woman), étalon (of a man)
  7. (attributive, of colors) bright; shiny; eyecatching

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: petardo
  • Spanish: petardo

Interjection

pétard

  1. (slang) An interjection of surprise.
    Synonym: putain

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