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Newyorican

Newyorican is the alternative form of Nuyorican.

Newyorican is the alternative spelling of Nuyorican.

Meaning of Nuyorican

Adjective

Nuyorican (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
    • English-speaking Nuyorican, Chicano, and Cuban writers know two verbs for to be and to know, and are obsessed with the past.1993, Ilan Stavans, “Foreword”, in Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, editors, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (A Marc Jaffe Book), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company...

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Forms of Newyorican

pluralNewyoricans

Words that rhyme with Newyorican

Questions about Newyorican

What is Newyorican the alternative form of?
Newyorican is the alternative form of Nuyorican.

Words near Newyorican in the dictionary

  1. newvamps
  2. Newville
  3. Newvilles
  4. newworldward
  5. newy
  6. Newyorican
  7. Newyoricans
  8. Newyorkian
  9. Newzak
  10. nex
  11. nex gen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Newyorican (page history and authors); Nuyorican (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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