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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lunfardo, probably from an alteration of lombardo.

Related phrases

buenos aireslower class

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