boricua

English

Etymology

From Taino boricua.

Adjective

boricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican.
    • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 55:
      She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.

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Spanish

Etymology

From the Taino name for Puerto Rico, Borikén.

Adjective

boricua (plural boricuas)

  1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

Noun

boricua m (plural boricuas, feminine boricua, feminine plural boricuas)

  1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

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