taquilla

/taˈkiʝa/ · B2 · adj

cool, popular, fashionable

🎟️🎭 taquilla sounds like tack-KEE-ya: tack your ticket up at the booth window

Taquilla is the ticket booth or box office, and also an informal word for something popular or a hit. A film that sells lots of tickets at the taquilla is a success, which links the booth to the sense of cool or fashionable.

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