What does bacanas in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word bacanas in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use bacanas in Spanish.

The word bacanas in Spanish means fantastic, great, cool, hot, arrogant, overbearing, awesome, sugar daddy, kept person, fat cat, moneybag, cool. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word bacanas

fantastic, great, cool

adjetivo (CL, CU, EC, PE (excelente)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
El primer álbum que grabó la banda no me convenció mucho, pero este sí está bacán.
I didn't much like the band's first album but this one is fantastic.

hot

adjetivo (CU, PE (muy atrayente) (slang)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
De joven, Lucía era una mujer bien bacana.
When she was young, Lucia was very hot.

arrogant, overbearing

adjetivo (CL (prepotente)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
A Sergio le pegaron por bacán.
They hit Sergio for being arrogant (or: overbearing).

awesome

adjetivo (CO: coloquial, aprobación (agradable, amable) (collolquial)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Me gustaría tener un papá bacán como el tuyo.
I'd love to have an awesome dad like yours.

sugar daddy

nombre masculino (UY (amante generoso) (pejorative)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El bacán trata como reina a su novia.
The sugar daddy treats his girlfriend like a queen.

kept person

nombre masculino (CU: coloquial (hombre mantenido)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La vida de un bacán es muy cómoda.
The life of a kept person is very comfortable.

fat cat, moneybag

nombre masculino, nombre femenino (CO, UY (persona adinerada) (colloquial)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Un bacán se rodea de lujos.
Fat cats surround themselves with luxurious things.

cool

nombre masculino, nombre femenino (CO: coloquial, aprobación (persona agradable) (colloquial)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
La jefa es una bacana: nos dio el día libre para que viéramos el partido.
The boss is cool: she gave us the day off to go and watch the match.

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