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cariocas

cariocas is the plural of carioca.

Meaning of carioca

Noun

carioca (plural cariocas)

  1. A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
    • In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps.1982, Arthur J. Helfet, Disorders of the knee, page 388

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Noun capitalized: Cariocas

Cariocas

  1. (plural) plural of Carioca

Questions about cariocas

What is cariocas the plural of?
Cariocas is the plural of carioca.
What part of speech is cariocas?
Cariocas is a noun.

Words near cariocas in the dictionary

  1. carinulate
  2. carinule
  3. carinules
  4. cario-
  5. carioca
  6. cariocas
  7. cariogen
  8. cariogenesis
  9. cariogenic
  10. cariogenicity
  11. cariogens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cariocas (page history and authors); Cariocas (page history and authors); carioca (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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