levanton
n.— «Miriam fears her husband is the victim of a levanton, one of the kidnappings that plague this border city as the drug trade spreads its ugly claws.» —“Sure her husband is innocent, Miriam Garcia won’t turn her back on him” by Minerva Canto in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Orange County Register (California) June 15, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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