guero
n.— «Guero (it’s slang for “fair-haired white boy” in Beck’s native east Los Angeles) neatly sidesteps this by sounding like every Beck album and none of them.» —“The changing man” by Leon McDermott Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) Mar. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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