caramba
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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City Hall news, there are two words for this: Ay caramba.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
And if it wasn't for the waves, caramba!
From Time Magazine Archive
“Dedd, caramba, don’t you know who I am?”
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
In a hard squeeze of the hand which I give the sham Catalan at parting, he inadvertently roars out in a good Creole accent:— 'Ay! ay! ay! caramba, suelte usted.'
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
"What about the fifty-foot B'ar I saw wit' mine own eyes, caramba?"
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
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