Piru
/ˈpaɪ.ɹu(ː)/noun
Piru is a noun meaning “A member of an alliance of African-American street gangs based in southern California” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-R-U and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Piru is Pirus.
What does Piru mean?
noun
- 1
A member of an alliance of African-American street gangs based in southern California.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Piru?
- US /ˈpaɪ.ɹu(ː)/
Piru has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Piru
- Pirus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Piru?
Piru appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Piru come from?
From Chumashan. The gang was named after Piru Street, a residential street in Compton and neighboring Willowbrook; but is now often explained by various backronyms, such as Powerful Indestructible Ruthless Untouchables.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).