Trujillo

[troo-hee-oh, troo-hee-yaw]

noun

1. Rafael Leonidas Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 1891–1961, Dominican general and politician: president 1930–38, 1942–52.

2. a seaport in NW Peru.

Trujillo

¹

/ truˈxijo /

noun

1. a city in NW Peru: founded 1535; university (1824); centre of a district producing rice and sugar cane. Pop: 686 000 (2005 est)

Trujillo

²

/ truˈxijo /

noun

1. Rafael ( Léonidas ) (ˌrafaˈel), original name Rafael Léonidas Trujillo Molina . 1891–1961, Dominican dictator, who governed the Dominican Republic (1930–61) with the help of a powerful police force: assassinated

Example Sentences

When Jennifer Trujillo first heard her middle school band students say “six, seven” in class and explode with glee, she sought out the advice of an expert — her 15-year-old daughter.

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Trujillo wanted to know what, exactly, her students were saying when they’d repeat the numbers and moved their hands in a juggling motion.

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“You don’t realize how many times you say 67 or six, seven in your daily life until you have a bunch of middle schoolers to remind you,” Trujillo said.

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Trujillo, who teaches at Giano Intermediate School in West Covina, likened the experience to the word-of-the-day segment on the “The Pee-Wee Herman Show” from the 1980s that would cause everyone on the show to erupt with joy when the word was said.

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Perhaps, Trujillo reasoned, these nonsense and silly phrases are this generation’s way of telling everyone to just have fun.

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