0 a snack or breakfast food popular in Spain and Latin America, consisting of a long tube of dough (= a flour and water mixture) fried in hot fat, covered in sugar and often eaten with a hot chocolate sauce:
The churro is not something you are going to look for as a health food.
A night out in Madrid wouldn't be complete without a post-clubbing bag of churros.
These churros stands sell freshly fried doughnuts at all hours of the day and night.
Like pretzels, churros are often sold by street vendors, who will often fry them freshly on the street stand and sell them hot.
They go to get churros from a concession stand.
Churreras, or stores that serve churros, are quite common.
They are also sometimes eaten as a substitute for chocolate and churros (including as a late night snack).