Meanings
plural bachateros
- A singer of bachata music.
Oscar, Mr. Díaz’s homely homeboy hero, is “not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about — he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy” with a million hot girls on the line.
2007 September 4, Michiko Kakutani, “Travails of an Outcast”, in New York Times
Origin
- Spanishbachatero
- Englishbachatero
From Spanish bachatero.
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