Lunfardo is called so any machine motor ( automobile, locomotive, 41 lifts; that it works between ramshackle, with a sound resembling the cough. The reason was an association with tar pills called Catramina ( Italian catrame, " 34 tar; ) that it took just to relieve the cough.
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