canalero

Referring to the Panama Canal: canal + -ero.

canalero (feminine canalera, masculine plural canaleros, feminine plural canaleras)

1. (Central America, exonym) Panamanian

canalero m (plural canaleros, feminine canalera, feminine plural canaleras)

1. (Central America, exonym) a Panamanian

   Synonym: panameño

• Unlike popular local nicknames for other Central American nationalities such as catracho (Honduran), nica (Nicaraguan) or tico (Costa Rican), canalero is not commonly used by Panamanians themselves in any context.

• “canalero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28