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/Sounds like "gee" (as in "geese") + "YAH" (as in "yard") + "oh" (as in "oh")/

Meaning

A person who thinks they're more than they are, a show-off who brags without anything to back it up. In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the guillao is all flash with no substance behind it.

Examples

He's guillao with his new chain that isn't even real gold.

Don't get guillao, we all know the truth.

Word family

A cluster of small homes arranged around a shared central courtyard in Mexico, where multiple families live together and everyone knows each other's business. Think El Chavo del 8: neighbors who borrow everything, argue loudly, and somehow always look out for each other. A piece of traditional Mexican urban life that still exists in many city centers.