Meanings (ES + gloss)
gusano auditivo • gusano cerebral
A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.
"It's been haunting me," she said. / "Yeah, well," he said, weakly. "Sometimes tunes do that." [...] "I don't mean that I heard it once before and caught an earworm. [...]"
The chorus [of "Meeting in the Ladies Room" by Klymaxx] spawned an earworm so potent that women still mutter it as they exit for a bathroom break twenty years later.
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