montezuma's revenge

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   diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America

   Broaderdiarrhea

Questions about montezuma's revenge

What does montezuma's revenge mean?

montezuma's revenge means "diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America".

Is montezuma's revenge a common word?

montezuma's revenge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.