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Tag: minero

Definitions tagged minero in the street dictionary.

PIRQUIÑERO

A stubborn person who works in sections of a mine that have been abandoned because they are no longer profitable. (In Bolivia, these independent miners scavenge for leftover minerals in exhausted veins).

Camilo is a pirquiñero, that is why he is poor.

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JUCU

A clandestine miner who works for themselves, typically by stealing ore from established mines (the term is derived from the Quechua word for owl because they usually work at night).

Look at how that jucu goes underground in the middle of the night.

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cacanero

A man who frequently has sex with trans women: this is a vulgar and derogatory term used to label or mock the man for his sexual preference.

That guy is a cacanero.

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