balik-bayan

balik-bayan
 n.— «During the holiday season, FASA will send Balik-Bayan—translated as “Return Home”—boxes to the Philippines providing children with food, clothes and toiletries.» —“FASA heritage dinner honors ethnic and cultural diversity” by Mary Andom in Western Washington Univ. Western Front Online (Bellingham, Wash.) Nov. 9, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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