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piragua

[pi-rah-gwuh, -rag-wuh] / pɪˈrɑ gwə, -ˈræg wə /
NOUN
canoe
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Lin-Manuel popping in here and there as the piragua man.

From Los Angeles Times

And “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway in 2008 and was supposed to arrive in movie theaters last year, feels as of the moment as a freshly scraped piragua on a broiling July day and as permanent as the girders of the George Washington Bridge.

From New York Times

She returns home for the summer in the grip of an ambivalence that is as much a fixture of the Heights as open fire hydrants and piragua carts.

From New York Times

Jackson played Benny in the Broadway production of In the Heights and here appears as the Piragua Guy’s rival, selling Mister Softee.

From Slate

Miranda, happily a bit player in a world he created, plays the piragua guy.

From Seattle Times