Newyorican

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Adjective

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Newyorican (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Nuyorican.

Noun

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Newyorican (plural Newyoricans)

  1. Alternative form of Nuyorican.
    • 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 277:
      But the decade’s spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City’s more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or “Newyoricans.” […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services.
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