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Spanish
Etymology
From sopa, originally meaning "bread bathed in soup" which then came to mean strike or hit. Derivation from súbito or from Latin subitus is folk etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sopeˈton/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: so‧pe‧tón
Noun
sopetón
- Only used in de sopetón
2015 November 10, “La infancia de Pablo Iglesias son recuerdos de Los Pajaritos”, in El País:De la ensoñación poética, de la infancia y la juventud que tanto le regalan a su personaje, le saca la voz chillona de otro niño que le pregunta de sopetón qué ha hecho mal para que las encuestas le vayan así así a Podemos.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- strong blow, strong hit
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