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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shantytown inhabited mainly by speakers of Spanish and located in the United States near the border with Mexico.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, neighborhood, from Spanish, colony, from Latin colōnia; see colony.]

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