bachatero

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noun

A singer of bachata music.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounbachatero (plural bachateros)

plural bachateros

  1. 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

  1. Spanishbachatero
  2. Englishbachatero

From Spanish bachatero.

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APA

bachatero. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bachatero

MLA

“bachatero.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bachatero. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bachatero,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bachatero.

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