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the feeling that no matter what you do something is always somehow wrong—that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you and they're all trying to help, but you keep disappointing them.
"I feel like I can't get anywhere in the world. How do you do it?"

"I dunno, I thought you knew."

"Oh. Is that the pâro thing that I heard about last week?"
Pâro by translucency March 7, 2019
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It means a favor..
Necesito que me hagas un paro ..
(I need you to do me a favor)

Hasme el paro..
(Do me a favor)
Paro by Ingeniero February 18, 2020
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Irish slang short for paranoid.
All that sniff Paddys on is making him mad paro. He thinks the garda has his gaff bugged
Paro by Gramstic April 25, 2020
Ex. 1

"Prospective members of MS-13 are required to complete an initiation process—to move from “paro,” to “observation,” to “chequeo,” to “homeboy.”

U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts, Press Release, November 21, 2017

Ex. 2

Cilindro: Hey homey! Can I use the bathroom? Those fish tacos ain't agreeing with my stomach.

Gallito gets in Cilindro's face.

Gallito: No! You shit when I tell you to shit! You're just a bitch ass paro! I'm a righteous homeboy!

Cilindro: Okay then.

Cilindro loads up his shorts.
Paro by ZXY&ABC September 6, 2022
get paro means, to get drunk/pissed.
the state in which someone becomes after they drink excessive amounts of alcohol
guy1 ses: I wanna get paro
guy2 ses: Whats that?
guy1 ses: its where i get fucked off my nut and hook up with some fresh bitch then stumble home, only to throw up in the toilet
Paro by ;)Doors Fan 0069 October 28, 2003
someone who is scared and/or paranoid
Yo...he doesn't wanna fight...he's paro.
paro by Tha Ambassador July 15, 2006
A vagrant, a bum, a homeless person commonly used in British and Caribbean slang
James lost everything after that divorce, he is a paro now
Paro by Slang 767 October 10, 2018