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Acapulco

aca·pulco

US/ˌɑ.kəˈpʊl.koʊ/ uncommon

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a port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico; known for beaches and water sports (including cliff diving)

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Borrowed from Spanish Acapulco, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl Acapolco, from acatl (“reed”) + -pol (“big”) + -co (“at, to, from”).

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