Definition of Nuyorican in English:
Nuyorican
(also Newyorican)
nounˌnjuːjəˈriːk(ə)nn(y)o͞oˈyôrēkən
A Puerto Rican living in the United States, especially in New York City.
Example sentencesExamples
- He embraced and identified what it was to be a Nuyorican, a Puerto Rican growing up in New York.
- Yunqué's novel is about a Nuyorican and her punk-rocker boyfriend, Omaha Bigelow, who finds himself without a job and, perhaps more lamentable, with a particularly embarrassing anatomical problem.
- Part New Yorker, part Puerto Rican, Nuyoricans have become an integral part of New York City culture.
- Paying attention to language helps identify a Puerto Rican in New York as a new arrival from the island rather than a Nuyorican.
- Best known as Nuyorican, New Yorkers of Puerto Rican ancestry also define themselves as AmeRican, Borinquen, Boricua, or simply Rican.