boricua

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adjective

Puerto Rican.

OriginPuerto Rican Spanish boricua ← Taíno *borīkē →
UncommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

boricua1

adjectiveboricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)

comparative more boricua · superlative most boricua · alternative Boricua

  1. UScolloquialPuerto 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
nounboricua (plural boricuas)

plural boricuas · alternative Boricua

  1. UScolloquialA Puerto Rican.

Boricua2

adjectiveBoricua (comparative more Boricua, superlative most Boricua)

comparative more Boricua · superlative most Boricua

  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.

    2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), page 80
nounBoricua (plural Boricuas)

plural Boricuas

  1. Alternative letter-case form of boricua.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
puerto rican

Origin

  1. Taíno*borīkē
  2. Puerto Rican Spanishboricua
  3. Englishboricua

From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.

More words from Puerto Rican Spanish, Taíno

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

caribou
Cite this entry
APA

boricua. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boricua

MLA

“boricua.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boricua. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boricua,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boricua.

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