Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Mexican ballad or folk song.

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  • noun A Mexican or Mexican-American ballad or folksong.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, from Spanish, ballad, from past participle of correr, to run, from Old Spanish, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Spanish corrido.

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