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A reckless or aggressive driver who ignores traffic laws, speeds, and cuts other people off with no regard for safety.
Be very careful crossing the avenue because that taxi driver is driving like a cafre and almost drove onto the sidewalk.
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Used to describe someone who is extremely crude, unrefined, or behaves like a total brute. It defines a person whose manners are very low class and lack any sophistication (in Mexico, the term is also very commonly used to describe reckless or aggressive drivers).
Don't be such a cafre and use your silverware, you look like an animal eating with your hands.
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A person who drives in an aggressive or reckless manner, showing total disregard for traffic laws and the safety of others. (In Mexico, this term is frequently associated with the drivers of microbuses, which are small public transit buses known for their chaotic driving style).
That cafre in the microbus ran the red light and almost hit the lady who was crossing the street.
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Someone who drives recklessly, speeds, and makes dangerous maneuvers without respecting other drivers. It refers to a typical aggressive and dangerous motorist on public roads.
Watch out for that cafre in the red taxi, he cut me off really bad and almost ran me off the avenue because he was racing around.
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A derogatory term for someone perceived as low-class, trashy, or ghetto, often targeting people from public housing projects (known in Puerto Rico as caserios). It refers to those who use heavy profanity, speak very colloquially, or act unrefined. It also describes fans of urban reggaeton or rap culture, or anything considered tacky and vulgar.
Look at that cafre, grinding in the street. You are so cafre, saying 'verdá' (dropping the final d in words is often seen as low-class). Look at those people, such cafres, they look like they come from the projects.
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A trashy, low-class person who is known for being vulgar and ridiculous. In short, a cafre is a tacky, low-rent individual (in the Dominican Republic, this is also the standard term for a reckless, aggressive driver).
As Calle 13 says in his song, Tango del Pecado: 'Move it, the cafre from Trujillo is here. Girl, you fit me like a glove.'
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A reckless or aggressive driver who ignores traffic laws and endangers others. It describes someone with no driving etiquette who causes accidents and chaos (often used in Mexico to describe public transit drivers).
That minibus almost hit me because he was speeding, you can tell the driver is a cafre.
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A reckless, aggressive driver who completely ignores traffic laws and endangers others. It describes someone who drives like a maniac or in a dangerous, erratic way (in Mexico, it is a label famously applied to bus drivers who drive aggressively).
Be very careful crossing the street because that bus driver is a cafre and he blew through the red light at full speed.
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A rude brute or a total jerk who has no respect for others and steps all over them. It usually describes a sexist man who is aggressive or mistreats women.
Juan is such a cafre to his wife; he screams at her all the time.
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