adjective
Street Slang
Beaucoup
· adjective · nola
A whole lot — pronounced 'bookoo' down in NOLA.
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French for 'a lot', absorbed wholesale into New Orleans English and spelled phonetically as 'bookoo' or 'boocoo' when it gets really local. Used as both an adjective and an intensifier — beaucoup crawfish, beaucoup problems, beaucoup money. One of those NOLA loanwords that outs you instantly as either from there or not.
“She got beaucoup cousins down in Houma — whole town's basically family.”
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Beaucoup In A Sentence
She got beaucoup cousins down in Houma — whole town's basically family.
Origin & Usage
Louisiana French, picked up by GIs in WWI/WWII and dragged back into wider American slang as 'boocoo' / 'boku'.
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