boricua
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of boricua
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(US, colloquial)Puerto 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.”
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adj
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(US, colloquial)Puerto 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.”
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(alt-of)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.”
noun
- (US, colloquial)A Puerto Rican.
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of boricua.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Words you can make from boricua
73 playable · top: CARIBOU (11 pts)
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13 words4-letter words
19 words3-letter words
32 words- CAB 7 pts
- COB 7 pts
- CUB 7 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BIO 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- BRO 5 pts
- BUR 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- CRU 5 pts
- CUR 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBI 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- ORB 5 pts
- ORC 5 pts
- RIB 5 pts
- ROB 5 pts
- ROC 5 pts
- RUB 5 pts
- URB 5 pts
- AIR 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- RAI 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
2-letter words
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