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pollo

American  
[paw-yaw, -lyaw] / ˈpɔ yɔ, -lyɔ /

noun

Spanish.

plural

pollos
  1. chicken.

  2. Slang. (in Mexico) a laborer who pays to be smuggled or guided over the border into the U.S. illegally.


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In a video posted to YouTube in 2013, Gutierrez prepared a New York strip steak “the way Mr. Sinatra used to like it,” and pollo almendrado “Barbara Sinatra style.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Andrés is offering a limited number of reservations at his DC restaurant China Chilcano in order for guests to try their new anticuchos de pollo.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

When their mother cooked, she called her children over so that they could learn her recipes for classic Puerto Rican dishes like arroz con pollo.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Later that night, over tacos and pollo enquesado, the two preachers’ kids bonded as they discussed a collaboration.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023

I take slices of red pepper Mami has roasted in the oven and green peas from a Green Giant can and arrange them on the mound of arroz con pollo.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar