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Marielito, n. U.S.
(mærɪɛˈliːtəʊ, ‖ marieˈlito)
Also with lower-case initial.
[a. Amer. Sp. marielito, f. the name of the Cuban port of Mariel + -ito Sp. diminutive: see quot. 1980.]
Any of the tens of thousands of Cuban refugees who sailed from Mariel to Florida in 1980 as a result of a temporary relaxation of emigration restrictions by the Cuban government.
A number of those permitted to leave Cuba were inmates of prisons or mental institutions. The adverse publicity occasioned by this has led to the term being used sometimes pejoratively.
1980N.Y. Times 18 Dec. b14/3 There is even a slightly patronizing neologism, ‘marielitos’, meaning roughly ‘the poor little ones from Mariel’, used by Cuban-Americans to describe the new refugees. 1983A. Holleran Nights in Aruba vi. 190 Mother, I would never allow you to come here now. First, God knows some Marielito would hijack the plane. 1986New Yorker 17 Feb. 52/3 There was a police report saying that two Marielitos had begun arguing on the street and the argument had ended with one shooting the other dead. 1991J. Sayles Los Gusanos xx. 173 There is a Marielito in housekeeping at the hospital. |