What does boricua mean?
Boricua means (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(colloquial, chiefly US) 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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Boricua means (colloquial, chiefly US) Puerto Rican..
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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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