A "congal”Is a Mexicanism that means a place where prostitution is practiced. For this reason, it is synonymous with "cabaret", "brothel" or "brothel", and its use is rarely used outside the borders of Mexico..
As it is colloquialism, it is rare to find it in the media, unless they are tabloid or sensationalist themes. However, it is a frequent word in everyday Mexican speech and in many literary texts or novels..
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The Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (DLE), incorporated the word in 1992. It states that a "congal" is a brothel, that is, a place where men attend to have sex with prostitutes in exchange for money. In addition, the RAE points out that "congal" is a word that is used only in Mexico, where the term "pelódromo" is also used as a local synonym for "congal".
From "congal" there are also other derived words. For example, "congalero" or "congalera", referring to the fact of going to a "congal", having a party in one of these sexual places or the person who frequents these places regularly.
Of course, it is possible to use it in a literal way, although it can also be used metaphorically when referring to a place or a disorderly, uncontrolled, unclear or cloudy place..
Some words with a meaning similar to "congal" are "burlesque", "cabaret", "hoax", "bulín", "cabarute", "whore", "quilombo", "whiskería", "puticlub", "brothel", "Mancebía", "lenocinio", "brothel" or "whorehouse".
-"Years ago, when young people were 18 years old, they were taken to the congal to have their first sexual experience".
-“Finally, the girl who had been missing for 10 months was found. She had been kidnapped by a gang that made her work in a congal ".
-"We went with some congalera boys all night".
-"In a mega police operation, ten congales on the outskirts of the city were closed".
-"The locker room became a congal, everyone discusses and then talks to the press".
-"If you want to spend a night with me you must come to the congal and there we negotiate it".
-"A media and political scandal broke out after the leak of photos of the mayor coming out of a congal".
-"I don't like that house next door, there is always noise, people coming and going ... it seems to me that he is a congal".
-"The stadium was emptier than a congal on a Monday".
-"More serious issues should be raised and politics out of the congal it is in now".
-"His wife kicked him out of his house for a congalero".
-"Two men were arrested after leaving the congalero and causing disturbances in the premises".
-"I visited Amsterdam and was struck by an area that is full of congales called the Red Light District".
-"The police know each one of the congales in the city, but they do nothing to close them down".
-"That girl is not accepted in the family for being a congaler".
-"The job ad suggests a position as a waitress in a congal, but we all know that the job will actually be another".
-“His downfall is women. He spends his money wasting on brothels. He is a congalero ”.
-"That girl works as a congalera in the brothel".
-"One of the oldest works in the history of mankind is that of congalera".
-"At school he suffers from bullying because his mother worked in a congal".
-"Drug trafficking handles businesses of all kinds, from congales to 5-star hotels".
-"The judge is accused of owning an apartment in the heart of the city where a congal worked".
-"Neighbors of the neighborhood protest the opening of two congales that attracted disturbances and vices to the area that was quiet".
-"The hotel where I stayed was of terrible quality, it looked more like a congal than a decent place".
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