boricua

adj, noun — 2 senses

boricua

adj

Etymology From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

1

US, Colloquial Puerto Rican.

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.2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 55:

boricua

noun

Etymology From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

1

US, Colloquial A Puerto Rican.

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