0 a person who was born in or who lives in Rio de Janeiro, a city in Brazil:
She is a proud Carioca.
1 from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, or relating to or typical of a person from Rio de Janeiro:
To cariocas, as the city's natives are called, the hum of mosquitos in the summer is all too familiar.
As a tourist, I try to look and act as much like a Brazilian - or a Carioca, a native of Rio - as possible.
Cariocas are obsessive tanners, and wear their bikini strap marks like proud tattoos.
"Chiquérrimo," one front-row guest at the show was heard to murmur in a low, appreciative Carioca drawl.
The sunrise pours like fresh orange juice over the mountains on to the sea: this is a Carioca [Rio de Janeiro] morning.
The two Carioca staples are coffee and caipirinha.
