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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃanˈkuko/
- Rhymes: -uko
- Syllabification: chan‧cu‧co
Noun
chancuco m (plural chancucos)
- (Colombia, Venezuela) smuggling
2019 October 30, Harold Alvarado Tenorio, “Una ministra calceta”, in El Nacional:Nombrada en el cargo una muchacha bogotana de 28 años, que nunca había estado entre saltatrás, palenqueros, raizales, notentiendos y vendedores de viche y chancuco, excepto por el color de sus mejillas, se instauró, en el Ministerio de Cultura, la tradición obamiana de nombrar a una negra, bien blanca de habla, católica, maneras y alimentación, y por supuesto trajes, o queriendo serlo, para ese cargo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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