narcocorrido
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish narcocorrido, from narco- (“drug”) + corrido (“ballad”).
Noun edit
narcocorrido (countable and uncountable, plural narcocorridos)
- (music) A genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.
- (music, countable) Any song in this genre.
- 2007 February 19, Ben Ratliff, “Singing Stories From Lives Lived Far Away From Home”, in New York Times[1]:
- They were nonjudgmental first-person stories, including the notorious narcocorrido “Pacas de a Kilo,” (“One-Kilo Packets”) told from the point of view of a proud marijuana grower.
Further reading edit
- narcocorrido on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From narco- (“drug trafficking”) + corrido (“folk song”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
narcocorrido m (plural narcocorridos)
Further reading edit
- “narcocorrido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014