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What does "yuma" mean?

A foreigner, especially an American. "La Yuma" is the United States.

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🇨🇺 Cuba
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YOO-mah
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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

Descriptive rather than hostile — a yuma is simply a foreigner, usually a visitor. "Irse pa' la Yuma" means to emigrate to the US.

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Where it comes from

Widely credited to the 1957 western "3:10 to Yuma," which was popular in Cuba. Yuma came to mean America, and then Americans.

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