Thread: please translate........

what is the meanin of
gas pela
it is puertorican i believe
it is in a reggaeton song
the song is called gas pela

I'm a native Spanish speaker from Argentina and I don't have a clue what this could mean. Anyone can enlighten us?

Gas pela? pela mean peal...gas is gas....so I can assume it means take off fast or run fast.....It's pure slang from puerto rico so it's hard to be right unless your Puerto Rican...

we have Puerto Ricans in the forum, can't you enlighten us, guys?

anyway, I find interesting to try... we all agree about "gas". as to "pela", I was going to suggest it's in Spanish a form of "peel" or the result of something peeled, but in the DRAE "pela" appears also as a synonym of 1) "peseta" (Spanish coin) and 2) of "paliza" (in Cuba, Panama and Puerto Rico...). I looked it up in a dictionary of Spanish varieties, www.jergasdehablahispana.org, and found that "pelar" (v.) is also not to care about somebody or something: "me la pela" (= I don't care), a phrase I had heard in a song from the Spanish group Estopa (and just now I find what it means!). in Argentina, "pelar" means also (vulgar) to undress the male organ...

the thing is that "gas" + "pela" doesn't seem to make any sense!!!

come on! someone solve this puzzle, please!

thank you for your uniqe explenations!!!
if there are anymore of you out there that may be able to take a stab go for it. it bothers me that its this dificult to find a concrete meaning

I found out the answer to your question.

It's a puerto rico expression (used only there) that means something like this:
When you do something bad to someone else, probably that one will do the same to you; when you're waiting to see what's goin'on with this one, you are waiting to see if the Gas Pela...in spanish something like "dejalo a ver si el gas pela o no pela", in english "let's see if the fire burns or not". Let's see what happens.

Don't know if i've let you understand what i mean.

The origin is this: in Puerto Rico the gas for torches was sold individually and people who bought it used to bring their own cans to store it, but this kind of gas was quite strong and if it touched your skin it peeled it.

It's the better i've found out and the link to the original explanation is here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4123416AAyIsiJ

Hope this can help you.
ciao ciao
Ita

wow, that sounds like a pretty good explenation. thank you for your care and hard work.
now it doesnt bother me anymore!!! lol

i got another one
no me ronques
i have a feeling that it may mean something along the lines of dont get in my way/dont bother me

Itan, thanks for your explanation! it was great!

I have a question regarding your signature phrase:
Quando ti morde un lupo, pazienza.
Quel che secca è quando ti morde una pecora.

I get the first half, but could you translate the second half for me? thanks!