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He’s well-built but not a body-builder type. If there’s one thing she knows, it’s a papi, be it a valet with a goatee, a UPS delivery man in shorts or a suit behind the wheel of a Suburban.Ī papi, she says, “is very Latino-looking with dark hair, hazel eyes, tan complexion. Jordan, born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, moved to Los Angeles three years ago.
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A male member of the same group who had never heard the term soon got his Papi 101 lesson. “A papi is a babe,” says Cindy Jordan, 28, who recently described a guy within eyeshot as a papi chulo to her friends. In restaurants (“That waiter is a papi”) and on the beach (“Papasito!”), papi perusers are on the prowl. The expression’s sidewalk incarnation, “Ay, Papi Chulo!” which loosely translated means, “Hey, hunka-hunka burning love, I’m yours!” is making its way across the country from New York, where Latinas, particularly Puerto Ricans, have been using it forever. In that context, it’s as old as the Spanish language.īut in matters of love and libido, “papi” implies much more than just sugar and spice. For instance, a mother may tenderly call her child papi (my son) a daughter might proudly say her father is her papi (my daddy) a wife can label her husband her papi (my old man), or a friend can shout, “Hey, papi!” (Hey, dude).
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“We looked through the magazine and asked, ‘What’s missing?’ Then it dawned on us, ‘Where are the papis? Where are the guys?’ ”Īs a term of endearment, “papi” means many things to many people, she says. “For one page of the magazine to generate this much mail says to me that our readers see the fun in the column,” Haubegger says, adding that El Papi Chulo took shape during a brainstorming meeting with her staff.