In Spanish and Latin American usage, a ranchero is a person associated with a rancho — either as the owner of the ranch or as a worker on it. In Mexican and Tex-Mex cultural contexts, it also refers to a style of traditional rural music (música ranchera) characterized by passionate vocals, mariachi or norteño instrumentation, and themes of love, loss, and country life. The term carries a sense of rural identity and working-class pride in Mexican culture, sometimes romanticized and sometimes used plainly as an occupational descriptor.
The ranchero played the same corrido three times at the party, and nobody asked him to stop.
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a ranch or rancho worker.
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a ranch or rancho owner.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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