carioca
IPA: kɛriˈoʊkʌ
noun
- A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
- An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
- The Carioca River, a river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
- Alternative form of Carioca [An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.]
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Examples of "carioca" in Sentences
- Carioca often dresses as a woman.
- Here's some helpful hints from a carioca.
- Carioca, as a third opinion agreed with me.
- Funk carioca is the term used in other states.
- Thanks carioca, it was some kind of browser bug.
- One of the most important Carioca security experts.
- Funk carioca, known as funk in Brazil, musical genre.
- See Carioca for a description in Spanish of a related variation.
- In 1990, the club disputed the Campeonato Carioca for the first time.
- A current joke at the show is that Carioca is gay and has hemorrhoids.
- I visited Rio once, and costinha comes across as the classic "carioca".
- One carioca friend of mine said, "Whatever they can do wrong, they will."
- MIDI keybord tic tic tac joão brasil fruta fruit natural stop motion carioca wafer guettotech
- If you don't naturally know how to drive with the carioca flow, you're at high risk for an accident.
- Ms. Gilberto also was joined by her friend and fellow carioca a Rio resident, the rapper Marcelo D2, who matched her smooth, romantic lyrics with his rapid-fire staccato in a combustible finale.
- However, if you take some simple precautions you can greatly reduce the odds of being mugged or getting mowed down by a carioca motorist, and feel almost as safe that's a big "almost" as you would in New York or Paris.
- One reason for not including Rio was a desire to avoid the obvious, so I was very pleased with this twitter note from Cecilia Nobre (who IS carioca) – the key expression in brackets at the end (‘and without stereotypes, wow!’)