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The name given to Puerto Rico people by Puerto Ricans. [3] bregar To work on a task, to do something with effort and dedication. [9] broki brother or friend. [5] cafre a lowlife. Comes from Arabic (Arabic: كافر , romanized: Kafir). cangri A badass, hunk or hottie. [10] An influential person. [11] From English congressman. [7] cariduro
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This partial list of city nicknames in Puerto Rico compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
Now I removed all failed references. That is, the ones that are just texts using the slang/phrase in question, instead of supporting/discussing the fact that they are common slang words or phrases used in Puerto Rico. Although, some of the remaining terms are sourced by a link to urbandictionary.com.
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That was the image captured on video by El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico's leading newspaper, which said rising waters in the Gurabo River − in the east-central part of the island − forced the cows ...
The majority of Puerto Ricans today do not speak English at home, and Spanish remains the mother tongue of Puerto Ricans. Stateside Puerto Ricans are known to borrow English words or phrases in mid-sentence in a phenomenon called code-switching , sometimes characterized as Spanglish .
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