trêbado

Blend of três (“three”) +‎ bêbado (“drunk”) or tri- (“tri-, three”) +‎ bêbado (“drunk”).

This is a play on words. It treats the Portuguese word bêbado (“drunk”) as if it started with the prefix bi- (“two”) and changes it to tri- (“three”).

trêbado (feminine trêbada, masculine plural trêbados, feminine plural trêbadas)

1. (colloquial, uncommon, humorous) very drunk

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:trêbado.

• “trêbado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024