Bay of Pigs

noun

1. a bay of the Caribbean Sea in southwestern Cuba: site of attempted invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces April 1961.

Bay of Pigs

noun

1. Spanish name: Bahia de los Cochinos. a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)

Bay of Pigs

1. The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961. The invaders, numbering about fourteen hundred, had left after the Cuban Revolution and returned to overthrow the new Cuban leader, Fidel Castro; they were trained and equipped by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The operation was a disaster for the invaders, most of whom were killed or taken prisoner. The Bay of Pigs incident is generally considered the most humiliating episode in the presidency of John F. Kennedy, who had approved the invasion.

Example Sentences

They got on transport planes for a night flight to Puerto Cabezas, on the eastern coast of Nicaragua, the jumping-off point for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

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As the Bay of Pigs invasion force gathered on the beach in Nicaragua, the Soviets were set to launch a surprise mission of their own.

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Yes, the soldiers about to invade the Bay of Pigs were not American.

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The little force reached the Bay of Pigs just before midnight on April 16.

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Invaders were hitting the beach at the Bay of Pigs, Castro told him.

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