Slang/abbreviation for city of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
USA. The term, although specific origins are unknown, is thought to have lingered through generations of "Burqueños," (
people from Albuquerque).
Conflict:
Very recently there has been a collective reaffirmation of this nickname in response to current Mayor
Martin Chavez's announcement of a commercially-driven re-branding of Albuquerque as the "the Q." Many
people feel as if this new nickname has nothing to do with Albuquerque, but with a gentrified version of the city that has been sanitized to be more palatable to outside investors. Nevertheless, new city buses and other city-
run aspects of the community have adopted/been branded with this new catch-phrase.
The Frontier restaurant is classic Burque: old
people on sundays,
pop-punk teens at 11pm after their concert, cholos at any time of day, and when all the
bar-going individuals somehow find their way up from downtown when the bars close.