llavero

llavero
 n.— «Another card shows a young man in a wizard’s hat holding a set of keys: a sign that the recipient is a “llavero”—the shot-caller who “holds the keys” to big decisions in the yard.» —“Sending Greetings From All the Gang” by Richard Fausset Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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