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Tag: el-cuco

Definitions tagged el-cuco in the street dictionary.

Toño Rosario (EL KUKO)

The stage name of Máximo Antonio del Rosario Almonte, a legendary Dominican merengue singer born in Higüey in 1955. He began his career with his brothers in the group Los Hermanos Rosario, famously using makeshift instruments like glass bottle bottoms and tin cans as children due to poverty. Following the death of his brother Pepe, he and his brother Rafa led the band until he moved to Puerto Rico in 1990 to launch a solo career. He has since become one of the most prestigious and best selling merengue artists in the world (El Kuko is a nickname meaning the boogeyman, reflecting his eccentric stage persona).

The singer of songs like: La Maricutana, Machucalo, and Kuliki-Taka.

Automatically translated from Spanish

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Carieton

An imaginary bogeyman that parents use to scare children into obeying. Carieton is specifically used to get kids to brush their teeth, especially before bedtime. The threat is that if a child does not brush, Carieton will come and take them away (the name is a play on caries, the Spanish word for cavities).

A: Son, go brush your teeth. B: I do not want to, Mommy. A: Remember that Carieton is lurking around, and he takes away kids who do not brush their teeth. B: Oh no! I am going to brush.

Automatically translated from Spanish

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