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/Sounds like "BAHR" (as in "bar") + "koh" (as in "coat")/

Meaning

An easy, lenient teacher who never fails anyone in Mexico. The barco is every student's dream professor: no hard exams, extra credit for everything, and passing their class is basically automatic.

Examples

The history teacher is such a barco, everyone passes.

Sign up for that class, the teacher is a barco.

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Regional synonyms

Someone with wild, messy, or disheveled hair sticking out in every direction. In Guatemala and Honduras, pelibuche describes someone who clearly just rolled out of bed and has not looked in a mirror yet.