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Rico Suave

Rico Suave noun: a snappily dressed, cool, confident Latino lady's man.

Noun

Rico Suave (plural Rico Suaves)

  1. (US, slang) A snappily dressed, cool, confident Latino lady's man.
    • "No Rico Suaves for me." He sank his thumbs into his armpits to simulate wearing overalls. "I'm only into one-hundred-percent Boy-Next-Door crackers."2005, E. Lynn Harris, Freedom In This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, page 387
    • The show follows Lawrence Jameson, a regular Rico Suave, and Freddy Benson, a small-time swindler who tugs at ladies' heart.December 2007, Indianapolis Monthly, "Show Stealers", pp. 194, ISSN 0899-0328

Examples of Rico Suave in a sentence

  • He tried to turn on the Rico Suave charm.2008, http://books.google.ca/books?id=ueSMeohdBmYC&pg=PA80&dq=%22rico+suave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zSzULa1F5HK0AGqwoGADg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=...
  • And he felt a cloying kinship with his father, his uncles, his teachers, and his mentors at the same time he was feeling a closer bond with the homeboys, the G-Dawgs, the Rico Suaves.2011, Stanley E. Terrell, Brickettes: Tales and Poems from New Ark, page 57:

Forms of Rico Suave

pluralRico Suaves

Questions about Rico Suave

What does Rico Suave mean?
Rico Suave means a snappily dressed, cool, confident Latino lady's man.
How do you use Rico Suave in a sentence?
He tried to turn on the Rico Suave charm.
What part of speech is Rico Suave?
Rico Suave is a noun.
What is the plural of Rico Suave?
The plural of Rico Suave is Rico Suaves.

Words near Rico Suave in the dictionary

  1. rickyard
  2. rickyards
  3. RickyLeaks
  4. Ricla
  5. RICO
  6. Rico Suave
  7. Rico Suaves
  8. ricochet
  9. ricochetal
  10. ricocheted
  11. ricocheting

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