machetero
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish machetero.
Noun
[edit]machetero (plural macheteros)
- Someone who wields a machete.
- 2003, Lee Lockwood, Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel, page 13:
- Castro is talking about plans to increase the use of machines to cut the sugar cane in future harvests. A combine can cut thirty times as much cane as a machetero can. But they should not be afraid of losing their jobs.
- A member of the Boricua Popular Army.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]machetero m (plural macheteros)
- someone who wields a machete
- someone who makes machetes
- a member of the Boricua Popular Army
Descendants
[edit]- → English: machetero
Further reading
[edit]- “machetero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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