boricua

From Taíno boricua.

boricua (comparative more boricua, superlative most boricua)

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 55:

     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.

• caribou

From the Taíno name for Puerto Rico, Borinquen.

• IPA^(key): /boˈɾikwa/

boricua (plural boricuas)

1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

   Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño

boricua m or f (plural boricuas)

1. (colloquial) Puerto Rican

   Synonyms: puertorriqueño, borinqueño

• borinqueño

• “boricua” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.