Meaning of Mariel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name.
2. Someone who arrived in the US during the Mariel boatlift; a Marielito.
3. A city and bay in northwest Cuba.
4. The Mariel boatlift, when some 125,000 Cubans entered the United States.

Examples

“I happened to be in the coroner's office one morning when autopsies were being performed on the bodies of two Mariels, shot and apparently pushed from a car on I-95 about nine the evening before […].”

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