← All words
noun, masculine

polo flash

/ˌpolo ˈflaʃ/

noun, masculine/ˌpolo ˈflaʃ/plural: polos flash

freeze pop, freezie, ice pole (a water-based liquid confection that comes in a clear plastic tube and is frozen before eating).

Dame cien pesetas para comprarme un polo flash de fresa en el quiosco.Give me a hundred pesetas to buy a strawberry freeze pop at the kiosk.

From polo (“ice pop, popsicle”) + flash. The term flash (and its variant flax) is a genericized trademark derived from Burmar Flax, a popular Spanish brand of freeze pops introduced in the 1970s. The variant polo flan is a childish phonetic corruption of polo flash.