machetero

Borrowed from Spanish machetero.

machetero (plural macheteros)

1. Someone who wields a machete.
   • 2003, Lee Lockwood, Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel, page 13:

     Castro is talking about plans to increase the use of machines to cut the sugar cane in future harvests. A combine can cut thirty times as much cane as a machetero can. But they should not be afraid of losing their jobs.

2. A member of the Boricua Popular Army.

From machete +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃeˈteɾo/ [ma.t͡ʃeˈt̪e.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧che‧te‧ro

machetero m (plural macheteros)

1. someone who wields a machete
2. someone who makes machetes
3. a member of the Boricua Popular Army

• → English: machetero

• “machetero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024