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boricua
adj 2noun 2
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3ADJ.
great, new
VERB + BORICUA
waves
BORICUA + NOUN
families, migration
Definitions
adj
1
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.
noun
1
A Puerto Rican.
adj
1
Alternative letter-case form of boricua.
After […] the war ended, and on through the postwar years and into the fifties—during the great waves of Boricua migration to New York—Thomas Painter developed a particular admiration for Puerto Ricans.
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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
Wiktionary02
After […] the war ended, and on through the postwar years and into the fifties—during the great waves of Boricua migration to New York—Thomas Painter developed a particular admiration for Puerto Rican
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