payo
n.— «Their subculture (no, “sub-” doesn’t mean “inferior,” it means “a smaller part of the whole”) is heavily racist against “payos,” as they call non-gypsies, is hostile toward work and education, and many gypsies devote their lives to drugs and criminal behavior.» —by John Inside Europe: Iberian Notes (Barcelona, Spain) May 26, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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