pollero

[ paw-ye-raw; English poh-yair-oh ]

noun

, Mexican Spanish.

, plural pol·le·ros [paw-, ye, -, r, aws, poh-, yair, -ohz].

1. a smuggler of Mexican workers into the U.S.

Example Sentences

His father, Angel, and his mother, Teresa Roldán, sold eggs; because of that, Angel bore the nickname El Pollero, or the Chicken Man, when he started his racing career.

From New York Times

"I want to be a coyote or "pollero" to earn some good money," wrote another, referring to another slang term for a smuggler.

From Reuters

In the capital, Santo Domingo, as well as in areas of rural poverty, he captured the image for his work “El Pollero,” which shows a preteenage butcher chopping up chickens while wearing a navy blue cap with a dollar sign on it.

From New York Times

He lays particular stress on the testimony of the Magnifico Francisco Spinola, as related by the learned prelate Felippo Alberto Pollero, stating that he had seen the sepulchre of Christopher Columbus in the cathedral at Seville, and that the epitaph states him expressly to be a native of Savona: "Hic jacet Christophorus Columbus Savonensis."

From Project Gutenberg

The tomb to which the learned prelate Felippo Alberto Pollero alludes, may have been that of Fernando Columbus, son of the admiral, who, as has been already observed, was buried in the cathedral of Seville, to which he bequeathed his noble library.

From Project Gutenberg