corrido
noun
a Mexican ballad or folksong about struggle against oppression and injustice.
corridos
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pluralof corrido.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That’s what corridos is all about, and that’s why I got into the music scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
We knew that people liked us apart from the corridos like “Rápido Soy,” “No Son Doritos,” but I think with “Como Capo” we discovered that people like other sounds and lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
He’s memorialized in corridos, or Mexican folk ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Netón Vega, “Me Ha Costado” Netón Vega’s sprawling debut album “Mi Vida Mi Muerte” makes a formidable attempt to define the rapidly-shifting sound of corridos tumbados, courtesy of one of the genre’s eminent songwriters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
