caryaqueo
n.— «“At the beginning, there was too much caryaqueo in reggaeton,” he said, using a Spanglish slang word for carjacking. “They just stole songs from the Jamaicans.”» —“The reputed rebel of reggaeton” by Agustin Gurza Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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