pollo

American  

[paw-yaw, -lyaw] / ˈpɔ jɔ, -ljɔ /

noun

Spanish.

• pollos
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pollos
  plural

Example Sentences

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pollo pollos

But I didn’t think of the border metropolis while I scarfed down yummy tacos de pollo asado and carne asada, wrapped in butcher paper as if they were a flower bouquet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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

The chicken tinga is smoky and saucy while the pollo blanco could not be more different — rich and creamy, with corn and mushrooms.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 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

Mami has cooked a big pot of arroz con pollo, the rice yellow and soupy with pieces of chicken mixed in.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

These were rubbed to mimic the spicy, comforting flavors of the pollos asados turned out by the street vendors who used makeshift grills all over his community, but they weren’t cooked on grills.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

Those are clues that pollos may be hiding in the trunks of cars or under the floorboards of false-bottom pickup trucks.

From Time Magazine Archive

California has had such a law on its books since 1971, and it probably draws more pollos than any other state.

From Time Magazine Archive

The price of "pollos" jumped above par two or three times over.

From The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. by Charles R. Mabey