boricua

• Boricua

From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

boricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 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.

• Caribou, caribou

From Taíno *borīkē.

• IPA^(key): /boˈɾikwa/ [boˈɾi.kwa]
• Rhymes: -ikwa
• Syllabification: bo‧ri‧cua

boricua m or f (masculine and feminine plural boricuas)

1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

   Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño

boricua m or f by sense (plural boricuas)

1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

   Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño

• → English: boricua

• “boricua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014