Newyorican

English

Adjective

Newyorican (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Nuyorican.

Noun

Newyorican (plural Newyoricans)

1. Alternative form of Nuyorican.
   • 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 277:

     But the decade’s spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City’s more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or “Newyoricans.” […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services.