cayuco

plural cayucos

1. A sort of canoe or kayak.

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   Officials like Mr. Mazzitelli, of the United Nations office in Dakar, say that while African immigrants are crossing thousands of miles of ocean in wooden or fiberglass cayucos, or fishing boats, crammed with 50 to 80 passengers, the South Asians are leaving West Africa in groups of at least 100, and in much bigger vessels, like the barely seaworthy Marine I.

   2007 February 19, Caroline Brothers, “South Asians Taking Risky Route to Europe: Via Africa”, in New York Times