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Gringo   Listen
noun
Gringo  n.  Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, especially an American or sometimes an Englishman; often used disparagingly or as a term of reproach.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gringo" Quotes from Famous Books



... unlimbered their rifles and joined the mob. You see, whenever a train wreck occurred, the first cry of the spiggoties was 'Kill the Gringos!' They always did that, and proceeded to kill the train crew and whatever chance Gringo passengers that'd escaped being killed in the accident. Which is their kind of arithmetic, which I told you a while back ...
— The Red One • Jack London

... the way into the zone of light, and Manuel stepped back with a series of welcoming nods. His black eyes darted curiously to the stranger, who, in Manuel's opinion, looked unpleasantly like a gringo, with his coppery hair waving crisply under his sombrero, and his eyes that were blue as the bay over there to the east. But when Dade introduced him, Jack greeted his squat host with a smile that was disarming in its boyish good humor, and ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower



Words linked to "Gringo" :   noncitizen, outlander, foreigner, alien



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