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Montezu′ma's revenge′, [Slang.]
  1. Slang Terms, Pathologytraveler's diarrhea, esp. as experienced by some visitors to Mexico.
  • in allusion to Montezuma II, who was killed by invading Europeans 1960–65, American.


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