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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
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
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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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