Pedro n.
1. (US) any Spanish-speaking person; also attrib.
Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 167: Pedro Any Spanish-speaking person, used primarily in New York City, mostly in reference to Puerto Rican immigrants. | ||
Night Gardener 268: ‘I’m not having no Pedro food,’ said Henderson, speaking of the papusa place. |
2. cocaine [ref. to S. American origins of cocaine].
Powder 87: ‘Do you know Pedro?’ [...] ‘Alas, I know him well.’. |
In phrases
a cocaine user.
Powder 369: Between drug buddies – Friends of Pedro – it was unforgiveable. |