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Re:Darien Gap: The Most Dangerous (Absence of a) Road by InclinedPlane on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:08AM (#6807201)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
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Re:Darien Gap: The Most Dangerous (Absence of a) Road by coldtea on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @06:57AM (#6807603)
It's not even metonymy proper.

It's the adoption of a spanish word in another language, in which it IS used as a noun in the first place.

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