A term used for low-level thugs or petty criminals, as well as for people who smoke marijuana. It also describes someone who dresses in an eccentric, gaudy, or flamboyant street style (typically associated with the urban subcultures of the Colombian Caribbean coast).
That coleto steals anything left lying around. There was a coleta smoking weed in the park. Look at that woman! She looks really coleta in those clothes.
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.
Someone with blond or red hair. It is a playful or mocking nickname rather than a serious insult (Locrio is a traditional Dominican rice dish that gets a distinct reddish-orange color from seasonings).
I called your house, but that Caco e locrio brother of yours told me you weren't there.
A person who listens to reggaeton and adopts the urban fashion style associated with the genre, such as baggy clothes and flashy jewelry (a term used to describe the reggaeton subculture in Puerto Rico).
Look how kaco he looks, he wears his clothes way too big.
A slang term for a person who is completely bald. The comparison suggests the head is as smooth as an egg yolk or the tip of a penis. (In the Dominican Republic, ñema literally means egg yolk but is also vulgar slang for the glans).
The organ we use to think that we are thinking. But there are already many who do not even use it for that. (Used to mock someone's complete lack of common sense).
Dude, do you not have a Cerebro? How can you have sex with your girlfriend without a condom and expect her not to get pregnant, you total moron!
Refers to a person's head of hair or their haircut. It is commonly used when talking about one's hairstyle or getting a fresh cut at the barber shop.
1. A: Junior, how is my El Rufo? B: It is totally awesome, that haircut came out great. I am going to go get my El Rufo fixed up right now too. 2. Plinio, run the clippers on zero over my whole head or just leave a little shadow on El Rufo to hide the bald spot.
A haircut style that involves removing all the hair from the head, leaving it completely bald. (In the Dominican Republic, caco is a slang term for head).
People who feel self-conscious when they start going bald and shave off all their hair, that is a skin-shave or an A caco cut.