yanqui
noun
(in Latin America) Yankee; a citizen of the U.S.
yanquis
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pluralof yanqui.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"What is your secret?" envious Nicaraguans kept asking the two youthful yanquis.
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Far from having a secret, the yanquis were just amateur cotton growers who had struck it rich with their first crop.
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Distance and travel difficulties were barring most yanquis from the pleasures of the southern summer.
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They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis.
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