cocolo

Noun

a person of the black race, especially one native to the Lesser Antilles.

Adj

1. Someone who is a big fan of salsa music.
2. Simple, candid.

Hyphenated as

co‧co‧lo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koˈkolo/

Etymology

Derived from kokolo, nickname given to the Barloventino laborers upon their arrival in the Dominican Republic, by the Dominican sugar farmhands who came in large proportion from the Dominican southwest where they called black Haitians who crossed the border, cocolos.

Synonyms

moreno