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mcallear

mcallear
 v.— «For them, shopping on el otro lado, or “the other side,” has a built-in cachet. It has even given birth to a new verb in Mexico: Mcallear, meaning “to go shopping in McAllen.”» —“Mexican shoppers fuel South Texas retail boom” by Amy Chozick in McAllen, Texas Houston Chronicle (Texas) Mar. 11, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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