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diego

nouncommon in dialogue

A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.

    They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them Jimmies! Well, I tell you!

    "... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli."

    Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals.

Etymology

From Spanish Diego.

Forms

plural
diegos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).