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When a foreign visitor just arrived in Brazil, certainly he/she will hear the wo rd porra.

The term is used in all cities, but it is in Salvador city, the capit al of Bahia, where it attains the highest set of uses and meanings. In one way, it is definitively a four-letter word, nevertheless, because of frequency in whic h is used, the classification of porra as a word of insult is at least a result of imprecise evaluation.

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