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parandero

parandero noun: a barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute.

Noun

parandero (plural paranderos)

  1. (Southwestern, US) A barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute.
    • Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ...1934, Mexican Life: Mexico's Monthly Review - Volume 10, page 23
    • Nazi infection took hold, of course, more easily among the usual weaklings, hotel-bar politicians and paranderos, or drunkards.1944, Kurt Severin, Lenore Sorsby, To the South, page 224
  2. (Caribbean) A man who performs parang music.
    • On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.2002, Moon handbooks: Guatemala, page 63
    • The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.2008, Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad., →ISBN

Examples of parandero in a sentence

  • May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz.1994, B. Traven, Trozas, page 41:
  • The following section will expand on the image of Zapata as a parandero, but with a special focus on his reputation as a seducer.2008, Bridget Christine Arce, Troping Mexico's Historical No-bodies, page 63:
  • The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise, →ISBN, page 263:

Forms of parandero

pluralparanderos

Questions about parandero

What does parandero mean?
Parandero means a barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute.
How do you use parandero in a sentence?
May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz.
What part of speech is parandero?
Parandero is a noun.
What is the plural of parandero?
The plural of parandero is paranderos.

Words near parandero in the dictionary

  1. paranatural
  2. paranaturals
  3. Paranaíba
  4. paranda
  5. parandas
  6. parandero
  7. paranderos
  8. parandja
  9. parandjas
  10. paranema
  11. paranemata

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