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/Sounds like "MAHN" (as in "mark") + "yah" (as in "yard")/

Meaning

A passionate supporter of Club Nacional de Fútbol in Uruguay, the country's most decorated football club. "Manya" is a nickname for Nacional fans, the eternal rivals of Peñarol in Uruguay's most heated football derby.

Examples

I have been Nacional through and through my whole life, just like my dad and my grandfather.

This Sunday the Nacional fans are confident their team is taking the classic.

Regional synonyms

A Chicano Spanish verb borrowed from the English "to watch," fully conjugated in Spanish. It means to look at something, check it out, or pay attention. One of the classic Spanglish verbs of Chicano caló, alive since the 1940s and still widely used in California, Texas, and New Mexico.