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narcocorrido

narcocorrido noun: a genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.

Noun

narcocorrido (countable and uncountable, plural narcocorridos)

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

Forms of narcocorrido

pluralnarcocorridos

Origin of narcocorrido

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

Questions about narcocorrido

What does narcocorrido mean?
Narcocorrido means a genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.
What part of speech is narcocorrido?
Narcocorrido is a noun.
What is the plural of narcocorrido?
The plural of narcocorrido is narcocorridos.

Words near narcocorrido in the dictionary

  1. narcoanalytical
  2. narcobourgeois
  3. narcobourgeoisie
  4. narcocatharsis
  5. narcocinema
  6. narcocorrido
  7. narcocorridos
  8. narcocracies
  9. narcocracy
  10. narcocultural
  11. narcoculture

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