narcocorrido

English

Etymology

From Spanish narcocorrido, from narco- (“drug”) +‎ corrido (“ballad”).

Noun

narcocorrido (countable and uncountable, plural narcocorridos)

1. (music) A genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.
2. (music, countable) Any song in this genre.
   • 2007 February 19, Ben Ratliff, “Singing Stories From Lives Lived Far Away From Home”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     They were nonjudgmental first-person stories, including the notorious narcocorrido “Pacas de a Kilo,” (“One-Kilo Packets”) told from the point of view of a proud marijuana grower.

Further reading

• narcocorrido on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Etymology

From narco- (“drug trafficking”) +‎ corrido (“folk song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɾkokoˈrido/ [naɾ.ko.koˈri.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: nar‧co‧co‧rri‧do

Noun

narcocorrido m (plural narcocorridos)

1. (Mexico, music) narcocorrido

Further reading

• “narcocorrido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28