Definition of "gringa" []

• Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a foreign woman in Latin America, especially an American or English woman. (noun)

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• "Here in Yucatan where an overweight person is called fatty, a one eyed person is called one eye, a dark person is called blackie, where we have a popular local band called “Nigga” worrying about being called a gringa is the least of my worries."
• "The bartender boasts afterwards that the "gringa" up there doesn't know if she's a New Yorker or a Puerto Rican, speaking English and then Spanish, till finally he got her motor going and she screamed out,"
• "Americans and women being the prime balloonees, my gringa friends had it even worse."