piragua
Americannoun
-
Also a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
-
a flat-bottomed sailing vessel having two masts.
noun
Etymology
Origin of piragua
1525–35; < Spanish < Carib: dugout
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Lin-Manuel popping in here and there as the piragua man.
From Los Angeles Times
And “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway in 2008 and was supposed to arrive in movie theaters last year, feels as of the moment as a freshly scraped piragua on a broiling July day and as permanent as the girders of the George Washington Bridge.
From New York Times
She returns home for the summer in the grip of an ambivalence that is as much a fixture of the Heights as open fire hydrants and piragua carts.
From New York Times
Jackson played Benny in the Broadway production of In the Heights and here appears as the Piragua Guy’s rival, selling Mister Softee.
From Slate
Miranda, happily a bit player in a world he created, plays the piragua guy.
From Seattle Times
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
