dejar plantado

Spanish

Verb

dejar plantado (first-person singular present dejo plantado, first-person singular preterite dejé plantado, past participle dejado plantado)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) to stand up, to be stood up, to ditch, to blow off (a person or people)
2. (idiomatic) to jilt, to let down, to leave in the lurch

Further reading

• “dejar a alguien plantado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10