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Puerto Rican time

Puerto Rican time noun: a notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Puerto Ricans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.

Noun

Puerto Rican time (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang, sometimes) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Puerto Ricans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.

Questions about Puerto Rican time

What does Puerto Rican time mean?
Puerto Rican time means a notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Puerto Ricans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
What part of speech is Puerto Rican time?
Puerto Rican time is a noun.

Words near Puerto Rican time in the dictionary

  1. Puerto Rican
  2. Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome
  3. Puerto Rican syndrome
  4. Puerto Rican tanager
  5. Puerto Rican tanagers
  6. Puerto Rican time
  7. Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
  8. Puerto Ricanness
  9. Puerto Ricans
  10. Puerto Rico
  11. Puerto Rico Trench

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