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no sabo kid

/noʊ ˈsɑ.boʊ kɪd/

no sabo kid noun: a person with Hispanic heritage who grew up in a non-Spanish speaking country and knows little to no Spanish.

Noun

no sabo kid (plural no sabo kids)

  1. (derogatory, offensive) A person with Hispanic heritage who grew up in a non-Spanish speaking country and knows little to no Spanish.
    • For example, as a reaction to this video, one user commented, "I can't understand how parents who are fluent in Spanish don't make an effort to teach their kids Spanish. If I ever have kids, I'm going to only speak Spanish to them. I ain't raising no no sabo kids. "2022 September 30, Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Jessica Retis, Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
    • I relate to the "no sabo" kids, the children of native Spanish speakers who learn only some of the basics of a language that sounds like home, the ones who are grown and thinking about their identity in a country that doesn't always accept them while knowing that the country of their parents...2023 October 11, Cassie McClure, My So-Called Millennial Life, Creators Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of no sabo kid

pluralno sabo kids

Origin of no sabo kid

From Spanish (yo) no sabo, an incorrect way of saying no sé (“I don't know”), + kid.

Questions about no sabo kid

What does no sabo kid mean?
No sabo kid means a person with Hispanic heritage who grew up in a non-Spanish speaking country and knows little to no Spanish.
What part of speech is no sabo kid?
No sabo kid is a noun.
How do you pronounce no sabo kid?
No sabo kid is pronounced /noʊ ˈsɑ.boʊ kɪd/ (US).
What is the plural of no sabo kid?
The plural of no sabo kid is no sabo kids.

Words near no sabo kid in the dictionary

  1. no results
  2. no returns
  3. no rights reserved
  4. no room at the inn
  5. no rose without a thorn
  6. no sabo kid
  7. no sabo kids
  8. no scope
  9. no scoped
  10. no scopes
  11. no scoping

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