boricua en · ADJ
Etymology
From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more boricua | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| Boricua | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most boricua | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |